Instrumentation
Fasha Mahjoor headshot

Science History Institute and Pittsburgh Conference to Present Pittcon Heritage Award to Fasha Mahjoor
Press Release
People wearing half-chest binders

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

Critical Metals: The Chemistry of Light
Museum
The BGL Chemical Set

Science at Play
Museum
Oil painting of an alchemist reading

Age of Alchemy
Museum
Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot

Things Fall Apart
Museum
Second Skin exhibit

Second Skin: The Science of Stretch
Museum
C.C. Dennis using mortar and pestle at Dearborn laboratory

Mechanochemistry: The Science of Crush
Museum
Illustration of tapping serum from a horse in a pharmacy

Animals and the Making of Human Vaccines
Museum
Ad for colored stockings 1955

Nylon: From Labs to Legs
Museum
Picture of Colin Dickey

Bonus Episode: Interview with Colin Dickey

Distillations Podcast
Portrait of the Fox sisters, spiritualists in the mid 19th-century.

Ghost Hunting in the 19th Century

Distillations Podcast
C.C. Dennis using mortar and pestle at Dearborn laboratory

Science History Institute Debuts ‘Mechanochemistry: The Science of Crush’ Digital Exhibition
Press Release
Ad for colored stockings 1955

Digital Exhibitions
Museum
The Instrumental Chemist video title image

The Instrumental Chemist
Research
Image of the Johnny Horizon environmental test kit

Distilled #13: An Environmental Cowboy from the 1970s

Distillations Video
Edison wax cylinder phonograph

Distilled #12: Edison’s Record Player

Distillations Video
Advertisement for Bendix MA-3 Gas Chromatograph system

Distilled #9: Lovely Ladies Sell Instruments

Distillations Video
Helitrim trimming potentiometers on the moon

The Folly of the Martian Back-Up Plan

Distillations Article
Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

Distillations Podcast
Man walking in forest of fall leaves

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

Distillations Podcast
Penguins on an iceberg

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

Distillations Podcast

Second Chances

Distillations Article
Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

Distillations Podcast

Carleen Hutchins: Rogue Luthier

Distillations Article

Here Comes the Spray Man!

Distillations Video

Fit as a Fiddle: The Remarkable Lives of Cremonese Violins

Distillations Article

How to Mine an Asteroid

Distillations Video
Still image from Rethinking Ink animation

Rethinking Ink

Distillations Video
Arnold O. Beckman and Ken Peters

A Covert Success Story

Distillations Article
Before and after of laser tattoo removal

Rethinking Ink

Distillations Podcast
TOMS and SBUV on display at the Institute. Photo by Gregory Tobias.

TOMS and SBUV
Research
Model 700 Dual-Column Gas Chromatograph, the Institute Collections

Model 700 Dual-Column Gas Chromatograph
Research
Liston-Becker Model 28 Exhaust Gas Analyzer, ca. 1956.

Liston-Becker Model 28 Exhaust Gas Analyzer
Research
Horiba pH meter. The Institute Collections. Photo by Gregory Tobias

Horiba-Mexa 200 CO Analyzer
Research
Hach Classroom Drinking-Water Testing Kit.

Hach Classroom Drinking Water Kit
Research
Millipore portable water-testing kit. The Institute Collections. Photo by Conrad Erb

Field Water Testing and Analysis Instruments
Research
Electron Capture Detector, 1958. The Institute Collections. Courtesy of James E. Lovelock.

James Lovelock's Electron Capture Detector
Research
Papers of Edward C. Dunlop, 1943.

Edward C. Dunlop Water Analysis, Manhattan Project
Research
Detail of the Beckman HC/CO tester. Courtesy of Beckman Coulter Heritage Council

Beckman HC/CO Tester, Beckman Instruments
Research

Pieter Tans
Research

Deb Niemeier
Research

Alastair Lewis
Research

Murray Johnston
Research

Jose-Luis Jimenez
Research

Peter DeCarlo
Research

Kenneth Davis
Research

Ronald C. Cohen
Research
Wind Map, created by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg

Wind Map
Research
Vaughn Bell poses with her work Village Green.

Home
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About Sensing Change
Research

Instruments
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Edward Dunlea calibrating an aerosol mass spectrometer at the Storm Peak Laboratory.

Scientists
Research

Roger Eardley-Pryor

People

Oral History Collections
Collections
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Scientific Biographies
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Oral History bound books

Oral History Collections
Collections

Modern Books and Journals
Collections

Where Have All the Trailers Gone?

Distillations Video
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (left) and Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen.

Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff
Historical Profile
J. J. Thomson.

Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson
Historical Profile
Dorothy Hodgkin in 1991.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Historical Profile
Arnold O. Beckman, 1959.

Arnold O. Beckman
Historical Profile
Rosalind Franklin in Paris.

Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins
Historical Profile
Donald Othmer as a young man.

Donald F. Othmer
Historical Profile
Mildred Cohn.

Mildred Cohn
Historical Profile
Pittcon Heritage Award plaque

Pittcon Heritage Award
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A Beckman model D oxygen analyzer monitoring an infant in an incubator.

Arnold O. Beckman Legacy Project
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Blow Pipe Kit

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Research fellow Roger Eardley-Pryor.

Research Activities
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Photographs
Collections
Joseph Wright's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768) housed at the National Gallery, London.

Pumped Up

Distillations Article
Musée des Arts et Métiers

Pour l’Amour de Lavoisier

Distillations Article
Harvard Cyclotron

Accelerating Oncology

Distillations Article
Climate scientists set up CO2-monitoring equipment.

Clearing the Air

Distillations Article

Particle Falls

Distillations Video
Geneticist Matthew Meselson with a Beckman Model E 1958

Inside the Box

Distillations Article
Robert Allington (right) and his brother John Allington, ca. 1960

Biz Kid

Distillations Article
Frank Field working with an ionization instrument at Humble Oil in the 1950s

An Emerging Field

Distillations Article
Intubation set

Instrumental to Survival

Distillations Article
A mass spectrometer 9 (MS9) at the Humble Oil and Refining Company, Baytown, Texas

Instrumental Developments

Distillations Article
A publicity photo for Waters Associates organic synthesis marketing program taken in Robert Burns Woodward's chromatography lab, 1973. Pictured are (from left to right) Helmut Hamburger, Josef F. K. Huber, James Waters, and Woodward, in front of the ALC-1

Waters Corporation: Fifty Years of Innovation in Analysis and Purification

Distillations Article
Lavoisier and Wife

Revolutionary Instruments: Lavoisier’s Tools as Objets d’Art

Distillations Article