TY - MANSCPT DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: No Known Copyright TI - Thomas Stauble and Andrew Tubby conducting destructive range test at Hercules Port Ewen plant ID - 9g54xj17g AU - Hercules Incorporated DA - 1960/// YR - 1960 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/9g54xj17g AB - General view of employees Thomas Stauble (left, foreground) and Andrew Tubby (right, foreground) using assorted machinery to test the destructive range and effectiveness of detonators and initiators manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant located in Port Ewen, New York. Per notations on the verso of the photograph, Tubby is using a Beckman (Berkeley) Time Interval Meter to apply the correct firing load to a test device located behind the wall, while Stauble photographs the effects of the detonation. The three employees visible in the background are identified as follows (left to right): Henry Meigel; James Ellsworth, Jr.; and Edwin Smedes. 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 - Research, Industrial KW - Propellants KW - Hercules Incorporated KW - Explosives--Testing KW - Corporations KW - Explosives KW - Beckman Instruments, Inc. KW - Machinery KW - Stauble, Thomas KW - Tubby, Andrew LA - ER -