Fashion & Beauty
Ad for colored stockings 1955

Ex Libris Universum: Museum Tour
Media Coverage
Illustration of women in colorful clothing

Fit to Be Dyed

Distillations Article
Science history photo collage

Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

Distillations Podcast

Second Chances

Distillations Article
Women wearing orange yoga pants and yellow sneakers

The Yoga Pant Problem

Distillations Podcast

Women’s Work

Distillations Article
1950s ad for Mum cream deodorant

The Smell of Shame

Distillations Podcast
Swedish worker inspects nylon stocking, 1954

Synthetic Threads

Distillations Article
cosmetic ad showing early 20th century woman

The Secrets of Life

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Robert W. Gore demonstrating the expansion of ePTFE, ca. 1982.

Robert W. Gore
Historical Profile

Plan Your Visit to the Museum
Museum
Wallace H. Carothers, shown here with neoprene.

Wallace Hume Carothers
Historical Profile

Permanent Exhibition
Museum

Photographs
Collections
Foster Grant Sunglasses Ad

Plastic Town

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Fleischmann’s Yeast for Health campaign

The Healing Power of Compressed Yeast

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Bakelite: The First Synthetic Plastic

Distillations Video
From Burned to Learned

From Burned to Learned

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A Vogue model poses before the Atomium

Blast from the Past: Atomic Age Jewelry and the Feminine Ideal

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Recipes and Extracts on Alchemy, Medicine, Metal-Working, Cosmetics, Veterinary Science, Agriculture, Wine-Making, and Other Subjects

The Philosophers’ Stove

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The 17-jewel movement of a 1967 Omega Moon watch.

Making Gemstones

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Full-length illustration of a fashionably dressed flapper standing with one hand on her hip and a cigarette in the other hand. A stream of smoke from the cigarette forms a curving, twisting, decorative line.

Counting Calories

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A giant leg, 35 feet high, advertised nylons to the Los Angeles area.

Nylon: A Revolution in Textiles

Distillations Article

True Blue: DuPont and the Color Revolution

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