TY - MANSCPT DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: No Known Copyright TI - Charles J. Skuwera and Clem Shernauski with cubed nitrocellulose at Hercules Parlin plant ID - jw827c394 AU - Hercules Incorporated DA - 1960/// YR - 1960 AV - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 2, Folder 23 VL - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 2, Folder 23 AN - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 2, Folder 23 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/jw827c394 AB - General view of employees Charles J. Skuwera (left) and Clem Shernauski (right) lifting a barrel containing cubed nitrocellulose at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Parlin, New Jersey. 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 - Employees KW - Chemical industry KW - Nitrocellulose KW - Hercules Incorporated KW - Corporations KW - Shernauski, Clem KW - Skuwera, Charles J. LA - ER -