The Senses
Food scientists break flavor down into elements

Science History Institute Featured in ‘Philadelphia’ Magazine
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Sam Tharpe headshot November 2022

Sam Tharpe Joins Science History Institute’s Board of Directors
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Downstream museum view

Grid: Award-Winning Exhibit Explores Water Analysis and Protection
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A horse trotting. Photogravure after Eadweard Muybridge.

The Murderer Who Made Movies Possible

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Color abstract landscape painting

Claude Monet and Bee Purple

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Impressionist painting of a lily pond

Could Claude Monet See Like a Bee?

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Downstream promotional banner

Institute’s ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Featured in Multiple Media Outlets
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Model of Delaware River Basin, 1964.

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Must-See Museum Exhibits in Philly This Fall
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Research curator Jesse Smith shows off Downstream exhibition

WHYY: Exhibition Traces a 200-Year History of Water Pollution in Philadelphia
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Photo of FDR in a wheelchair

Bonus Episode: Interview with Kim Nielsen

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Catalogue image of microscopes

Science and Disability: Part 1

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Illustration of pepper plant

Heat Therapy

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Image of microscope from Robert Hooke's "Micrographia" 1665

Through the Lens of Disability

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Probing the Mysteries of Human Digestion

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caricature of a man blowing smoke out of his nostrils

If You Smell Something, Say Something

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18th century book gnawed by bookworms

What’s That Smell You’re Reading?

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Philippe Mercier’s The Sense of Smell (1744–1747).

The Scent of a Molecule

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Stradivari and the Search for Brilliance

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Men wearing gas masks

A Tear Gas Tale

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Grindhouse Wetware’s Northstar device in 2015.

Hacking Humans

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Scent of Mystery ad

The Third Sense

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Filippo Marinetti, 1934

Food Fight

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Maximilian Ringelman Smoke Charts, 1897. The Institute Collections.

Ringelmann Smoke Charts
Research
Munsell Book of Color, 1940s. The Institute Collections. Photo by Gregory Tobias

Munsell Color Charts
Research
Particle Falls at the Wilma Theater, 2013.

Particle Falls
Research

Instruments
Research
Waters: Glaciers and Bucks by Diane Burko.

Art
Research

Nicholas Shapiro

People
Michael Rossi headshot

Michael Rossi

People
Ramen

The Science of Satisfaction

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Fleischmann’s Yeast for Health campaign

The Healing Power of Compressed Yeast

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Happy dressed up girl eating an ice cream cone

Science by the Scoop

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Page from Chimie du goût et de l'odorat

The Key to Good Taste

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Pasteur studying the diseases of wine in 1863.

Scientia Vitis: Decanting the Chemistry of Wine Flavor

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True Blue: DuPont and the Color Revolution

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