Hercules Cellulose Acetate. Hercules Powder Company. November 1943.
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #graphicdesign #aviation #flighttraining #plastics #CelluloseAcetate #HerculesPowderCompany
52 people were killed. More than half of the plant’s entire workforce was either injured or killed. SOURCE: Rachel Maddow Presents, #Ultra (an MSNBC original podcast)
#HerculesPowderCompany Terrorist Attack
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#OTD in #History 1940
Sept 12: #HerculesPowderCompany Terrorist Attack
Context: The Hercules Powder Plant was destroyed by domestic terrorist in a coordinated effort to keep the US out of World War II and to advance a Nazi plot to blow up & takeover America.
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In #SEPTEMBER 1930
‘Daylight - Time to Dream’
Cellulose Products Dept., Hercules Powder Company
#Illustration by Bobri (#VictorBobritsky)
‘We produce nitrocellulose from which these materials are made.’
#illustrationart #plastics #lacquer #cellulosics #HerculesPowderCompany #dawn
by other companies, of transparent sheeting for packaging materials.
*Fortune*, July 1940
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Image from Records of Hercules Incorporated, Volume 1940. Science History Institute. Philadelphia. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/9593tv86w.
Hercules Ethyl Cellulose
New compound to be used as a ‘toughening agent in cable coatings, lacquers, films, plastics, and varnishes, among other applications’
Hercules Powder Company
*Fortune*, June 1940
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