Material Culture
Color illustration, hand in clouds holding silver ingot with wings

Magnesium, from the Sea to the Stars

Distillations Article
Ad for L’Insectoline

Biting Words
Museum
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
Ad for colored stockings 1955

Ex Libris Universum: Museum Tour
Media Coverage
Miners Hauling Electronics Amidst Pollution

C&EN: Rare Earths’ Magic Comes at a Cost
Media Coverage
Ad for colored stockings 1955

Digital Exhibitions
Museum
Edison wax cylinder phonograph

Distilled #12: Edison’s Record Player

Distillations Video
Portait of Rohm and Haas worker George Trapp

Distilled #10: Fancy Portraits for Factory Workers

Distillations Video
19th century breast reliever

Distilled #7: Bicycle Horn or Breast Pump?

Distillations Video
Close up of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s astronomy textbook, De Sphaera Mundi (On the Sphere of the World).

Distilled #6: A 17th-Century (Interactive!) Astronomy Textbook

Distillations Video
An early 20th century porcelain painting kit

Distilled #5: Porcelain Painting

Distillations Video
stereoscope with stereograph

Distilled #4: Virtual Reality in the 19th Century

Distillations Video

Distilled #2: An Early (Gold-Plated!) Not-Quite-IUD

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

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

Distillations Podcast
Penguins on an iceberg

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

Distillations Podcast
Photo of automaton hand drawing a picture on paper

Serious Fun

Distillations Article

Old Friends

Distillations Article
Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

Distillations Podcast
Women wearing orange yoga pants and yellow sneakers

The Yoga Pant Problem

Distillations Podcast
Vintage poster of people watching TV

Sci-Fi Radio Drama

Distillations Podcast
Still image from Rethinking Ink animation

Rethinking Ink

Distillations Video

Love, Peace, and Technoscience

Distillations Article
Before and after of laser tattoo removal

Rethinking Ink

Distillations Podcast

Women’s Work

Distillations Article
Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot.

Things Fall Apart

Museum
LZR Racer

Winning Skin

Distillations Article

Still Life

Distillations Article
Just what is it . . . (1956)

Richard Hamilton’s Plastic Problem

Distillations Article

Second Skin: The Science of Stretch
Museum
Swedish worker inspects nylon stocking, 1954

Synthetic Threads

Distillations Article
Walter Potter's Monkey Riding a Goat

Death and Taxidermy

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

TOMS and SBUV
Research
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
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
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
Clara Esther Hartley lab notes. Special Collections, the Institute

Clara Esther Hartley Lab Notes
Research
Detail of the Beckman HC/CO tester. Courtesy of Beckman Coulter Heritage Council

Beckman HC/CO Tester, Beckman Instruments
Research

Instruments
Research

Roger Eardley-Pryor

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

Robert W. Gore
Historical Profile

Plan Your Visit to the Museum
Museum

Modern Books and Journals
Collections
Portrait of Leo Hendrik Baekeland, early 20th century. Photograph by Underwood & Underwood Studios, New York, NY. Williams Haynes Portrait Collection, the Institute Collections.

Leo Hendrik Baekeland
Historical Profile
Roy J. Plunkett with a cable insulated with Teflon and a Teflon-coated muffin tin.

Roy J. Plunkett
Historical Profile

Permanent Exhibition
Museum

Fine Art
Collections
Science at Play Exhibit

Science at Play
Museum

Photographs
Collections

Collections
Collections
Making Modernity exhibit at the Science History Institute

On View
Museum
Blow Pipe Kit

Objects
Collections

Transmutations: Alchemy in Art
Museum

The French Connection

Distillations Article
Foster Grant Sunglasses Ad

Plastic Town

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

Making Gemstones

Distillations Article
Natrually dyed fibers

To Dye For

Distillations Article
A show at the Corning Museum of Glass features professional glassmakers at their craft.

Hot Stuff

Distillations Article
Set of 19th-century Hyatt billiard balls

Celluloid: The Eternal Substitute

Distillations Article
Distillations Magazine

The Great Fakes

Distillations Article
Lockheed Lounge by Marc Newson.

Aluminum: Common Metal, Uncommon Past

Distillations Article