Toxics
Chemist James Mack

Mechanochemistry

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Downstream museum view

Grid: Award-Winning Exhibit Explores Water Analysis and Protection
Media Coverage
Sketch illustration of barren and forbidding field of large stone blocks

Speaking to the Future

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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
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A man in a mine, wearing breathing apparatus and holding a lantern, finds asphyxiated miners. Wood engraving, ca. 1900.

The Alchemical Origins of Occupational Medicine

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Two children stare at cellphone in front of smokestacks

Choosing a Better High-Tech Future

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Illustration highlighting the rare earth elements in the periodic table

Book Club: The Risks and Rewards of Rare Earth Elements

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Satirical cartoon on food adulteration from Puck magazine

Harvey Wiley’s Fierce Pursuit of Food Safety

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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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Snakes and Letters

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Opioids’ Devastating Return

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caricature of a man blowing smoke out of his nostrils

If You Smell Something, Say Something

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The Mystery of Yellow Rain

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Imagining Philadelphia’s Energy Futures
Research

A Study In Scarlet

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Detail from Sanborn map of Ambler, PA.

Studies in Sustainability
Research
Innovation and Regulation on the Open Seas: The Development of Sea-Nine Marine Antifouling Paint

Studies in Materials Innovation
Research

Greetings from Isotopia

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Detail of illustration outside confectionery, 1885

Our Mutual Friend

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Elena Kunadt

People

Richard Nixon and the Rise of American Environmentalism

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Men wearing gas masks

A Tear Gas Tale

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A Killer of a Cure

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Insectoline

Beyond Silent Spring: An Alternate History of DDT

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Nitrous oxide party

High Times

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Crocidolite asbestos, Pomfret Mine, Vryburg, South Africa.

Flexible Meaning
Research
Arie Haagen-Smit with lab equipment, 1961

The Flavor of Smog

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Walter Potter's Monkey Riding a Goat

Death and Taxidermy

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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
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

Deb Niemeier
Research

Jose-Luis Jimenez
Research

Peter DeCarlo
Research
Roderick Coover at the Sensing Change exhibit opening, 2013

Estuary/Toxi*City
Research
Bird with Plastic

Polymer Scientist—Medical Applications
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Bird with Plastic

Pro−Plastic Bag Advocate
Learn
Particle Falls at the Wilma Theater, 2013.

Particle Falls
Research
Vaughn Bell poses with her work Village Green.

Home
Research
Waters: Glaciers and Bucks by Diane Burko.

Art
Research
Detail from Sanborn map of Ambler, PA.

REACH Ambler
Research
Tho-Radia ad

The Secrets of Life

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Bird with Plastic

Case Study for Waste: Trash and Treasure
Learn

Nicholas Shapiro

People
Bird with Plastic

Game Home
Learn
Students debating in a classroom

Science Matters: Role-Playing Games for Students
Learn
Cloud chamber from the A. C. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, ca. 1950.

Hazardous Fun

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Modern Books and Journals
Collections

Where Have All the Trailers Gone?

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Alice Hamilton at the age of 24, the year she graduated from medical school.

Alice Hamilton
Historical Profile
Rachel Carson.

Rachel Carson
Historical Profile
Ray W. Fuller.

Ray W. Fuller, David T. Wong, and Bryan B. Molloy
Historical Profile
Marie Curie.

Marie Sklodowska Curie
Historical Profile
Joan Berkowitz. Electrochemical Society

Joan Berkowitz
Historical Profile
Pollution hangs in the air over a United States Steel Corporation coke plant in Clairton, Pennsylvania, April 1973. Previously it had been cited for violations of the Clean Air Act.

TSCA: From Inception to Reform
Research
Operation Greenhouse

An Aging Army

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Puck magazine cover, March 12, 1884.

Science, Protector of the Common Good

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The Gowanus Canal

The Gowanus Canal

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Liber de arte distillandi de compositis

Tryals and Tribulations

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Baseball

Turf Wars

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White Mountains

Living in the Town Asbestos Built

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Conversation Piece

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Return to the Scene

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On Poisoned Ground

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A worker holding asbestos

Changes in the Air

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Rachel Carson

Loud and Clear

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A sample of Salvarsan from 1936

Early Solution

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Social Science

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Playing It Safe?

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Illustration of factories on the Hudson River in New York City, 1870s

The Smell Detectives

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An Everyday Poison

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Life Is Fragile

Delicate Matters

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Smokestack

Community Adjourned: Assessing Community Advisory Panels

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Lafarge arsenic trial

Prefiguring the Arsenic Wars

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Color booklet for paint

The Devouring Element

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Jody A. Roberts

Ask the Expert: Decoding Warning Labels

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A phrenological map of the brain

Entered into Evidence

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Punch cures the gout, Gillray, 1799.

Getting the Lead Out

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