TY - MANSCPT DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: Public Domain Mark 1.0 TI - 1951 Hercules Advertisements ID - cv43nx632 AU - Hercules Incorporated DA - 1951/// YR - 1951 AV - Records of Hercules Incorporated, Volume 1951 VL - Records of Hercules Incorporated, Volume 1951 AN - Records of Hercules Incorporated, Volume 1951 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/cv43nx632 AB - The extensive collection of Hercules advertising materials, covering the years 1913 through 1952, documents the company's growth as a major manufacturer of chemical products. A portion of the 1951 edition is digitized here with content covering Toxaphene insecticide as well as pine oil. Formed in 1912 as part of an anti-trust settlement with DuPont, the Hercules Powder Company (later Hercules Inc.) initially specialized in the manufacture of explosives and smokeless powders and subsequently diversified its business to encompass a variety of industrial products, including pine and paper chemicals, synthetics, pigments, polymers, and cellulose. KW - Toxaphene KW - Chemical industry KW - Research, Industrial KW - Cleaning compounds KW - Hercules Incorporated KW - Pine oil KW - Corporations KW - Naval stores KW - Insecticides KW - Advertising, Industrial LA - English ER -