Commerical Initiators display board (1955)
- 1955
General view of a display board featuring samples of commercial initiators manufactured and sold by the Hercules Powder Company. Per notations accompanying the photograph, the board was displayed at a 1955 meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers.
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.
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Hercules Incorporated. “Commerical Initiators Display Board (1955),” 1955. Photographs from the Records & Ephemera of Hercules Incorporated, Box 26, Folder 12. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/dbuyeqt.
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