TY - MANSCPT DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: No Known Copyright TI - John Coleman operating roll rewinder at Hercules Hopewell plant ID - qf85nc19d AU - Hercules Incorporated DA - 1951/// YR - 1951 AV - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 1, Folder 36 VL - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 1, Folder 36 AN - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 1, Folder 36 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/qf85nc19d AB - General view of back tender John Coleman operating a roll rewinder in the Cellulose Department at the Hercules Powder Company plant in Hopewell, Virginia. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the roll rewinder was used to produce smaller rolls from a jumbo roll of so-called "chemical cotton," i.e. purified cellulose obtained from raw cotton linters, manufactured at the plant. 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 - Cotton KW - Hercules Incorporated KW - Corporations KW - Cellulose KW - Machinery KW - Coleman, John LA - ER -