TY - CHAP DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: Public Domain Mark 1.0 TI - Acetate Toys LAST After Christmas! T2 - 1947 Hercules Advertisements ID - n470ohc AU - Hercules Incorporated DA - 1947/// YR - 1947 AV - Records of Hercules Incorporated, Volume 1947 VL - Records of Hercules Incorporated, Volume 1947 AN - Records of Hercules Incorporated, Volume 1947 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/n470ohc AB - Color print advertisement for Cellulose Acetate manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company for use as a base in plastic molding compounds. This advertisement appeared in the December 1947 issues of Modern Plastics, Plastics, and Product Engineering. 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 - Chemical industry KW - Hercules Incorporated KW - Corporations KW - Advertising, Industrial KW - Cellulose--Chemistry KW - Cellulose KW - Ethylcellulose KW - Plastics--Molding LA - English ER -