TY - MANSCPT DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: No Known Copyright TI - Walter Carney working in coiled wire storage at Hercules Port Ewen plant ID - cz30pt19r 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/cz30pt19r AB - General view of employee Walter Carney working in the storage area for coiled wires with attached ignition plugs, a component of the electric blasting caps manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Port Ewen, New York. 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 - Propellants KW - Hercules Incorporated KW - Corporations KW - Explosives KW - Carney, Walter LA - ER -