TY - MANSCPT DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: No Known Copyright TI - Apparatus for production of blasting caps at Hercules Port Ewen plant ID - 6108vb71q AU - Hercules Incorporated DA - 1962/// YR - 1962 AV - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 2, Folder 38 VL - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 2, Folder 38 AN - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 2, Folder 38 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/6108vb71q AB - General view of an unidentified employee setting a tray of shells into an apparatus used during the production of blasting caps at Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. The apparatus is likely a press machine used to fill electric blasting caps with an explosive charge. Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder Company (later Hercules Inc.) specialized in the manufacture of explosives and smokeless powders. The company's Port Ewen plant produced a range of special detonators designed for military use, as well as construction jobs that required blasts of dynamite, such as the clearing of quarries, mines, and tunnels. KW - Detonators KW - Employees KW - Chemical industry KW - Scientific apparatus and instruments KW - Propellants KW - Hercules Incorporated KW - Corporations KW - Explosives KW - Machinery LA - ER -