TY - MANSCPT DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: No Known Copyright TI - Trimming lead wires at Hercules Port Ewen plant ID - ns0646549 AU - Hercules Incorporated DA - 1955/02/08/ YR - 1955 AV - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 2, Folder 37 VL - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 2, Folder 37 AN - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 2, Folder 37 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/ns0646549 AB - Close-up view showing the trimming of lead wires for use in 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 - Chemical industry KW - Propellants KW - Hercules Incorporated KW - Corporations KW - Explosives LA - ER -