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Employee conducting destructive range test at Hercules Port Ewen plant

  • 1962

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General view of an unidentified employee using assorted machinery to test the destructive range and effectiveness of detonators and initiators manufactured at the Hercules Powder Company plant located 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.

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  • Series I. Facilities
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  • Box 2, Folder 38

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Hercules Incorporated. “Employee Conducting Destructive Range Test at Hercules Port Ewen Plant,” 1962. Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 2, Folder 38. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/5138jf445.

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