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  • 17 items
    Exhibitions

    Select digitized items from the exhibition, Second Skin: The Science of Stretch, on view in our Hach Gallery from November 4, 2016, to May 13, 2017.

  • 28 items
    Collections

    The Eddleman Collection contains oil paintings depicting early modern activities related to alchemy, the emerging sciences, and medicine, including distillation, early pharmacies, and medical shops by Dutch, Flemish,…

  • 10 items
    Collections

    This oral history collection features interviews with former members of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), a federal advisory committee of preeminent scientists and engineers…

  • 16 items
    Exhibitions

    Select digitized items from the digital exhibition, Nylon: From Labs to Legs

  • 268 items
    Collections

    This collection consists of a vast array of photographic prints, negatives, slides, and ephemera chronicling the plants, employees, products, advertising, and brand strategies of the Hercules Powder Company (later…

  • 135 items
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    This collection consists of the business records and printed and photographic materials of BetzDearborn, Incorporated, an American chemical company that manufactured water treatment chemicals for commercial and…

  • 14 items
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    This collection of records from the Chemists' Club primarily consists of photographs and ephemera depicting group members, events, and buildings spanning the 1940's through the 1990's. Digitized here are fourteen…

  • 123 items
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    This collection ranges from oil paintings, woodcuts, and works on paper to 3D objects including laboratory glassware, commemorative medals, and scientific equipment. The highlight of this collection includes oil…

  • 20 items
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    This archival collection, digitized here in its entirety, contains black and white print photographs and photographic postcards, some bearing handwritten captions or annotations, depicting laboratory workspaces and men…

  • 8 items
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    This collection consists of correspondence, reports, and research materials produced and collected by chemist Walter O. Snelling (1880-1965) over the course of his career as an industrial chemist primarily working with…

  • 2,507 items
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    The Beckman Historical Collection contains the corporate records of the American scientific and medical instrument manufacturer Beckman Coulter, Incorporated and the personal papers of American scientist and…

  • 1 item
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    This collection was built by Walter J. Hamer, an electrochemist known for his contributions to the science of batteries, during his tenure as Chief of Electrochemistry at the National Bureau of Standards (now known as…

  • 121 items
    Collections

    This collection consists of corporate records, photographs, and artifacts related to the Rohm and Haas Company, an international chemical corporation founded in 1907 in Esslingen, Germany through the partnership of…

  • 48 items
    Collections

    This collection, digitized here in its entirety, consists of 48 stereographs depicting various stages in the industrial manufacture of glass, steel, iron, and salt, published by Underwood & Underwood after 1895. The…

  • 39 items
    Collections

    This collection, digitized here in its entirety, consists of black-and-white print photographs of the Norda Essential Oil and Chemical Company manufacturing and laboratory facilities in Boonton, New Jersey, circa…

  • 11 items
    Collections

    This oral history series is an important resource for the history of nanotechnology, documenting the lives and careers of key scientists and engineers who shaped and contributed to the contemporary practice of science…

  • 5 items
    Exhibitions

    Select digitized materials from the digital exhibition, Playing Dirty.

  • 56 items
    Collections

    This collection consists of 3D objects, including cans, sprayers, and diffusers, as well as ephemera related to DDT pesticide and insecticide in the U.S. in the mid-20th century.

  • 2 items
    Collections

    The objects in this collection consist of sample sets of Lexan, the brand name for a polycarbonate resin thermoplastic. Daniel W. Fox is credited as the inventor of Lexan while working as a lab chemist with the General…

  • 11 items
    Collections

    Collected by Frank H. Stodola, this collection of autographs from 11 Nobel laureates, includes but is not limited to, Joshua Lederberg, Richard Kuhn, Harold Urey, E. J. Corey, and Melvin Calvin. Of particular interest…

  • 13 items
    Collections

    A collection of ten manuscripts dating from the 15th to 17th centuries. Four of the listed manuscripts represent a portion of the Pseudo-Lullian alchemical corpus, a large collection of as many as 143 different texts…

  • 12 items
    Exhibitions

    Select digitized items from the Science History Institute outdoor exhibition, Science and Survival, on display from October 2022-April 2023.

    Materials in this exhibition are from the Archival Collections, the Papers of…

  • 4 items
    Collections

    This collection consists of material related to Bernhard Witkop's professional and personal relationship with the famed African American chemist, Percy Lavon Julian, primarily in the form of correspondence. Witkop also…

  • 505 items
    Collections

    This collection consists of roughly 6,000 titles, some of which are digitized here, on chemistry and chemical industries, as well as other landmark books in the history of science and technology collected by Roy G.…

  • 33 items
    Collections

    The Robert J. Bauman Collection contains chemical and petroleum industry currency collected by Robert J. Bauman. The contents of this collection consist of the various types of currency issued by chemical and petroleum…