Water
Ad featuring industrial power plant 1943

Science & Activism Tour

Event
Jeannette Clarke performs blood analysis with Perkin-Elmer Atomic Absorption Spectrophotomer

Women in Chemistry Tour

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Ad featuring industrial power plant 1943

Science & Activism Tour

Event
Illustration of drawing water from a well

Water Tour

Event
Litterbug board game

Playing Dirty
Museum
group of women standing around a lab table with periodic table in background

Women in Chemistry Tour

Event
Ad featuring industrial power plant 1943

Science & Activism Tour

Event
Water testing at EPA facility

Water Tour

Event
Color map of dense city crossed with red lines and blue dots

The Murky Ethics of Wastewater Surveillance

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2022 Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits

‘Downstream’ Wins 2022 SHOT Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits
Press Release
Color illustration, hand in clouds holding silver ingot with wings

Magnesium, from the Sea to the Stars

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Downstream museum view

Friends of the Wissahickon Features Guest Blog Post by Institute’s Curatorial Affairs Director
Media Coverage
Bee Brand Flea Killer can

The Pets We Love and the Pests that Love Them
Illustration of the hydrologic cycle

Cycles, Circulations, and Systems
Downstream exhibition museum view

Science History Institute’s ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Wins 2022 AASLH Award of Excellence
News
Downstream museum view

Grid: Award-Winning Exhibit Explores Water Analysis and Protection
Media Coverage
Disk with black and white quadrants with rope attached

The Simple Usefulness of the Secchi Disk

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PA Museums Award 2022

Institute’s ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Receives PA Museums Award
Press Release
Color illustration of a 19th-century cholera victim

John Snow Hunts the Blue Death

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Illustration of fairies around water

River Gods, Lake Monsters, and the Abiding Power of Myth

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Chemistry International: Downstream
Media Coverage
black and white photo of a woman

Ruth Patrick’s Lovely Creatures

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Family Day participants

Family Day
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Slide from The Mighty Delaware lecture 1954

Institute Awarded Turning Points in History Grant from Villanova’s Lepage Center

Press Release
Water Pics exhibition

Water Pics
Museum
Water Pics exhibition

Science History Institute Mounts New Outdoor Exhibition
Press Release
Downstream promotional banner

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

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

WHYY: Exhibition Traces a 200-Year History of Water Pollution in Philadelphia
Media Coverage
Downstream web banner

Take a Watery Journey through History and Science with Institute’s New ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Opening September 14
Press Release
Downstream museum view

Downstream
Painting of shipwreck in rough seas

Reginald Fessenden and the Invention of Sonar

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large crowd outside in city

Philadelphia Earth Week, Fifty Years On

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Image of the Johnny Horizon environmental test kit

Distilled #13: An Environmental Cowboy from the 1970s

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Black and white close up of vial under microscope

The Rise and Fall of Polywater

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Historical photo of Philadelphia's Fairmount Water Works

How Philadelphia’s Water Pollution Problems Shaped the City

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Tollund Man

Bodies in the Bog: The Lindow Mysteries

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Fire in the Cuyahoga River with a firefighter boat blasting water

The Myth of the Cuyahoga River Fire

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Photo collage of JFK

Making the Deserts Bloom

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Nor Any Drop to Drink

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Closeup of telegraph sent by Eleanor Roosevelt

Distilled #3: Water Fit for a King

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Man walking in forest of fall leaves

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

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Fizzy Water

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LZR Racer

Winning Skin

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Clifford and Kathryn Hach.

Kathryn C. “Kitty” Hach-Darrow
Historical Profile

CSI: Gowanus—Cleaning up the Canal

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Lavoisier. Engraved by François Séraphin Delpech, after a drawing by Belliart, after the painting by Jacques Louis David.

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
Historical Profile
Rachel Carson.

Rachel Carson
Historical Profile

John Dalton
Historical Profile
Ellen Swallow, about 1858.

Ellen H. Swallow Richards
Historical Profile
Donald Othmer as a young man.

Donald F. Othmer
Historical Profile
Svante August Arrhenius.

Svante August Arrhenius
Historical Profile
Joan Berkowitz. Electrochemical Society

Joan Berkowitz
Historical Profile

Joseph Priestley
Historical Profile

Waste Not, Want Not

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The Gowanus Canal

The Gowanus Canal

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Rachel Carson

Loud and Clear

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Grand Rapids Schoolchildren Saliva Sampling

Pipe Dreams: America’s Fluoride Controversy

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Finnigan Instrument Corporation Model 1015 GC/MS/DS

A Measure of Success

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The Eighth Wonder of the World

Communicating Underwater

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Manufacturing the Weather

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Powerful Effervescence

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