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Teddy Ruxpin Mechanical Animal
- 1985
Teddy Ruxpin is an animatronic children's toy in the form of a talking 'Illiop', a creature that looks like a bear. The bear's mouth and eyes move while "reading" stories played on an audiotape cassette deck built into…
- Creator Of Work Worlds of Wonder, Forsse, Earl Kenneth
- Subject Audiocassettes, Magnetic tapes, Stuffed animals (Toys), Toys, Teddy bears, Educational toys
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Bottle for Zidovudine Antiretroviral Medication
- After 1987
Small plastic cylindrical medicine bottle. Safety cap is missing. Medicine bottle is empty.
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Bottle for Norvir Antiviral Medication
- 1996 – 2009
Square plastic pill bottle with safety cap. Medicine bottle is empty.
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Bottle for Combivir Antiviral Medication
- 1997 – 2011
Small cylindrical plastic white bottle with safety cap used for holding pills. Medicine bottle is empty.
- Manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline
- Subject HIV (Viruses)--Treatment, HIV infections--Treatment, Antiviral agents, AZT (Drug), Drugs, Medicine bottles, GlaxoSmithKline
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Distillation still
- Before 2007
Distillation is a method of separating chemical substances based on differences in their volatilities in a boiling liquid mixture. A distilled beverage is a liquid meant for consumption containing ethyl alcohol…
- Subject Distillation apparatus, Distillation
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Reproduction of Voltaic Pile
- 2018
Modern reproduction of the first electric battery invented by Alessandro Volta in 1800. Base and top are wooden. Between the base and top rests a stack or pile of 46 copper-zinc cells. Electrodes used to tranfer the…
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Amazonite
- Undated
Amazonite is a potassium-based blue-green variety of microcline feldspar. Its color may be an indication of the presence of iron or lead. Amazonite has been used as a decorative gemstone in statues and jewelry.
- Subject Amazonite, Precious stones, Minerals
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Barite
- Undated
Barium (atomic symbol Ba) is an alkaline Earth metal. Barite (also spelled baryte) is a mineral composed of barium sulfate. It is used in paints, inks, paper, and rubber. It is also used in radiology for diagnostic…
- Subject Precious stones, Minerals, Barite
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Calcite
- Undated
Calcite is one of the most widely used minerals. It is primarily composed of the chemical compound calcium carbonate. Calcite is also often used in demonstrations of double refraction, in which light is split into two…
- Subject Precious stones, Minerals, Calcite
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Celestine
- Undated
Celestine is a mineral with a light blue color. It is a source of the element strontium (atomic symbol Sr). Strontium compounds are commonly used in fireworks, fluorescent lights, and dyes and paints.
- Subject Celestite, Precious stones, Minerals
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Collection of 13 Aramith Bakelite Billiard Balls (Incomplete Set)
- Undated
Collection of 13 Aramith Bakelite billiard balls. Some billiard numbers are missing or duplicated.
Green cardboard box with removable top; interior of box bottom has a white plastic insert with round indentations for…
- Manufacturer Saluc S.A.
- Subject Billiards, Bakelite, Plastics industry and trade
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Fluorite
- Undated
Fluorite (also called fluorspar) is the crystal form of the inorganic compound calcium fluoride. The term "fluorescence," a type of luminescence by a substance that has absorbed light or radiation, is derived from this…
- Subject Precious stones, Minerals, Fluorspar
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Halite
- Undated
While its mineral name is halite, this substance is also commonly known as rock salt. Rock salt is composed of sodium chloride, an essential compound the human body uses to absorb nutrients and maintain blood pressure.
- Subject Salt, Precious stones, Minerals
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Humboldt Meeker Burner
- Undated
Meeker burners function the exact same way as Bunsen burners except that they are used for objects that require a wider flame base. The Meeker burner can produce more heat than a Bunsen burner and features a distinctive…
- Manufacturer Humboldt Manufacturing Company
- Subject Bunsen burner, Meeker burner, Humboldt Manufacturing Company
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Iron Gas Burner
- Undated
Iron gas burner for the production of small glassworks; ball and socket rotatable neck; two flame adjustment knobs; three-pronged foot. Adjusting the two knobs on the burner allows for the user to dial in the exact…
- Subject Glass blowing and working, Gas-burners
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Olivine
- Undated
Olivine is a mineral with a distinct green color and granular-shaped crystals. It is one of the first minerals to cool and crystallize from magma. Recently, olivine has been used as an alternative to silica sand and…
- Subject Precious stones, Minerals, Olivine
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Putnam Fadeless Dyes Tin Sign
- Undated
- Contributor Putnam Dyes
- Manufacturer American Can Company
- Subject Dyes and dyeing, Putnam Dyes
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Tourmaline
- Undated
Boron (atomic symbol B), a naturally occuring Earth element, was first isolated by Sir Humphry Davy and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis Jacques Thénard in 1808. Tourmaline is a boron silicate. Opaque and black in…
- Subject Precious stones, Minerals, Tourmaline