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Chemistry Sets
Ad for L’Insectoline

Biting Words

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People wearing half-chest binders

Redefining Nude

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Europium (III) Hydroxide [Eu(OH)₃] under UV Light

Critical Metals: The Chemistry of Light

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The BGL Chemical Set

Science at Play

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Oil painting of an alchemist reading

Age of Alchemy

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Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot

Things Fall Apart

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Second Skin exhibit

Second Skin: The Science of Stretch

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Illustration of tapping serum from a horse in a pharmacy

Animals and the Making of Human Vaccines

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Ad for colored stockings 1955

Nylon: From Labs to Legs

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Chemistry International: Downstream

Media Coverage
Ad for colored stockings 1955

Digital Exhibitions

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Second Skin: The Science of Stretch

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Science Kits at Play: 2000s

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Coloring Chemistry

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Science Kits at Play: 1900s

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Science Kits at Play: 1950s

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Science Kits at Play: 1850s

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Cloud chamber from the A. C. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, ca. 1950.

Hazardous Fun

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pH Meter Illustration

Virtual Chemistry

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Gordon Moore at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in 2005.

Gordon E. Moore

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Blow Pipe Kit

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Science at Play Exhibit

Science at Play

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Making Modernity exhibit at the Science History Institute

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Skil Craft Biology Lab 1960

It’s Alive!

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Mysto Magic

Presto Chango

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Cabinets for the Curious

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The BGL Chemical Set

Chemistry at Play

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