Scientific Instruments
cervimeter

Feeling Centimeters of Dilation: Why You’ve Never Heard of a Cervimeter

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Kipp's apparatus

‘High’ School Science
Downstream museum view

Friends of the Wissahickon Features Guest Blog Post by Institute’s Curatorial Affairs Director
Media Coverage
Selfie of Carolyn Bertozzi with laptop

Chemical Biologist Carolyn Bertozzi Among Trio Awarded 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Masamichi Yamashita

Bucks County Library Hosts Virtual Talk by Institute’s Roger Turner
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Xtreme5 Teen Tech Summit

Future STEM Leaders Gather at Science History Institute for Xtreme5 Teen Tech Summit
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Beckman Oligo 1000M DNA Synthesizer

Institute, Tsinghua University Partner to Present Online Exhibition
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Chemist James Mack

Mechanochemistry

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Portrait of Issac Newton

How To Be Smarter Than Isaac Newton

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A portrait of Niccolo Paganini on his deathbed.

Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code

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Chemistry International: Downstream
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Collections Deep Dive at the museum

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Family Day participants

Family Day
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Photo of Stephane Bancel

Interview with Stéphane Bancel

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

Science History Institute Debuts ‘Mechanochemistry: The Science of Crush’ Digital Exhibition
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Image of sam Kean

Tales of Love and Madness from the Periodic Table

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Photo of Miss Universe host and models standing next to skylab space junk.

Space Junk

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illustration of astronaut

Who Owns Outer Space?

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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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The Instrumental Chemist video title image

The Instrumental Chemist
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Image of the Johnny Horizon environmental test kit

Distilled #13: An Environmental Cowboy from the 1970s

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Silver astronomical globe set on a statue of a winged horse

How Renaissance Princes Pursued Beauty in Science

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Advertisement for Bendix MA-3 Gas Chromatograph system

Distilled #9: Lovely Ladies Sell Instruments

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

Through the Lens of Disability

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Object Explorer
Museum
Woman irritated by smog in LA in the 1950s

Fighting Smog in Los Angeles

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RHex marches up a dune in Pismo Beach, California, carrying a mechanical sensor that scrapes the dune’s surface to detect how much force is needed for the wind to pick up grains of sand.

Thinking on Your Feet—or with Them

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Man walking in forest of fall leaves

Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?

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Penguins on an iceberg

Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?

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Laser inventor Gordon Gould playing chess 1940

The Man, the Myth, the Laser

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An 1822 star map by Alexander Jamieson shows the constellation Telescopium Herschelii, depicted here, ironically, as a refracting telescope.

A Giant of Astronomy

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Data from Disaster

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Still image from Rethinking Ink animation

Rethinking Ink

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Arnold O. Beckman and Ken Peters

A Covert Success Story

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Rachel Carson on Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania, 1945.

Drop-In Tours
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Arie Haagen-Smit with lab equipment, 1961

The Flavor of Smog

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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
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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
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A.R. Ravishankara
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Deb Niemeier
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Alastair Lewis
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Murray Johnston
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Jose-Luis Jimenez
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Peter DeCarlo
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Kenneth Davis
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Ronald C. Cohen
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Wind Map, created by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg

Wind Map
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Coloring Chemistry

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Particle Falls at the Wilma Theater, 2013.

Particle Falls
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Vaughn Bell poses with her work Village Green.

Home
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About Sensing Change
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Instruments
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Edward Dunlea calibrating an aerosol mass spectrometer at the Storm Peak Laboratory.

Scientists
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Waters: Glaciers and Bucks by Diane Burko.

Art
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Nicholas Shapiro

People

Deanna Day

People
Women in Chemistry

Women in Chemistry
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Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev

Scientific Biographies
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Mary Lowe Good.

Mary Lowe Good
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Clifford and Kathryn Hach.

Kathryn C. “Kitty” Hach-Darrow
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Oral History bound books

Oral History Collections
Collections

Where Have All the Trailers Gone?

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J. J. Thomson.

Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson
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Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (left) and Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen.

Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff
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Donald Othmer as a young man.

Donald F. Othmer
Historical Profile
Dorothy Hodgkin in 1991.

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
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An 1830 engraving of Sir Humphry Davy, by G. R. Newton, after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830).

Humphry Davy
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Robert Woodward, with his trademark cigarette, sitting at a desk with a statue of a Scotsman.

Robert Burns Woodward
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Arnold O. Beckman, 1959.

Arnold O. Beckman
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Søren Sørensen.

Søren Sørensen
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Charles M. Hall, 1905.

Paul Héroult and Charles M. Hall
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Richard Smalley with a model of a buckyball.

Richard E. Smalley, Robert F. Curl, and Harold W. Kroto
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Michael Faraday. Engraved by D. J. Pound from a photograph by Mayall.

Michael Faraday
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Rosalind Franklin in Paris.

Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, and Maurice Wilkins
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Mildred Cohn.

Mildred Cohn
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Blow Pipe Kit

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Research fellow Roger Eardley-Pryor.

Research Activities
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Our library collections span nearly six miles of shelves

Othmer Library
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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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Making Modernity exhibit at the Science History Institute

On View
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Archives
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Synthesis Book Series
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Pittcon Heritage Award plaque

Pittcon Heritage Award
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Photographs
Collections

Permanent Exhibition
Museum
Early blood transfusion experiment

Power in the Blood: When Religion and Medicine Meet in Your Veins

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The French Connection

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17th-century scientists in the lab

Science and the Supernatural in the 17th Century

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Two Tales of Ballooning

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Art Detectives

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Guinea pig

Tiny Productions

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Musée des Arts et Métiers

Pour l’Amour de Lavoisier

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