Editing Port Ewen, New York (section)

===Hercules Powder Company===
[[File:Trimming platinum wires at Hercules Port Ewen plant 2012 017 b2f37 gb19f642h.tiff|thumb|Trimming platinum wires at Hercules Port Ewen]]

Hercules Powder Company was formed in 1882 by [[DuPont]] and [[Laflin & Rand Powder Company]]. In 1902 by [[DuPont]] purchased Laflin & Rand which it operated as a subsidiary. In 1904 it dissolved Hercules as it continued to consolidate it holdings. However in 1912 successful antitrust litigation forced Duport to divest itself of Laflin and much of its explosive manufacturing.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc38234/m1/185/|title=The Federal Reporter with Key-Number Annotations, Volume 188: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Courts of Appeals and Circuit and District Courts of the United States, August-October, 1911.|date=September 11, 1911|website=UNT Digital Library |chapter=''US v. Du Pont'' 188 Fed 127, 146}}</ref> Laflin's patents for smokeless powder went to a revived Hercules Powder Company based in Wilmington, Delaware.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.dupont.com/Heritage/en_US/related_topics/laflin_rand_powder_company.html|title=Laflin & Rand Powder Company|publisher=DuPont|accessdate=2012-02-24|archive-date=2012-02-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229045443/http://www2.dupont.com/Heritage/en_US/related_topics/laflin_rand_powder_company.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Port Ewen plant produced a range of special detonators designed for military use, as well as construction jobs that required blasts of dynamite.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/ht24wj96j|title=Production facilities at Hercules Port Ewen plant|website=Science History Institute Digital Collections}}</ref> In 1973, two women were injured in an explosion of blasting caps.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/04/24/archives/2-women-hurt-in-explosion-of-blasting-caps-in-factory.html|title="2 Women Hurt in Explosion Of Blasting Caps in Factory", ''The New York Times'', April 24, 1973|website=[[The New York Times]] }}</ref>