TY - MANSCPT DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: No Known Copyright TI - Kenneth Heiser wheeling powder buggy at Hercules Port Ewen plant ID - xp68kg677 AU - Hercules Incorporated DA - 1945/03// YR - 1945 AV - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 2, Folder 36 VL - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 2, Folder 36 AN - Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 2, Folder 36 UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/xp68kg677 AB - General view of employee Kenneth Heiser using a buggy to transport a load of charged shells produced 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. During World War II, the company's Port Ewen plant produced a range of special detonators designed for military use. KW - Explosives, Military KW - Employees KW - Chemical industry KW - Propellants KW - Hercules Incorporated KW - World War (1939-1945) KW - Military supplies KW - Corporations KW - Explosives KW - Defense industries KW - Heiser, Kenneth LA - ER -