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Where to Put It All? Some Thoughts about Collections, Museums, and History

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A Covert Success Story

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My Data, My Self: A Century of Self-Tracking Health Technologies

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History Lab: Communities and the Future

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History Lab: Bodies and the Future

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Ken Shoulder with drone, 1993

The Frontiersman

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Mephistopheles and Faust play chess

How to Tie with AI

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Electron Capture Detector, 1958. The Institute Collections. Courtesy of James E. Lovelock.

James Lovelock's Electron Capture Detector
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Chiptunes graphic

First Friday: Chiptunes—Obsolete Sounds in the Modern World

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Garry Kasparov plays a computer in chess

Thinking Machines: The Search for Artificial Intelligence

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Visitors view adoptable books on Acquisitions Night

Benjamin Gross

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Patterning the World: The Rise of Chemically Amplified Photoresists

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Liquid-crystal displays, a fundamental element of much of today’s technology, found their first commercial use behind a bar.

A Cloudy Past

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Finnigan Instrument Corporation Model 1015 GC/MS/DS

A Measure of Success

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Peter Lykos

A Life in Chemistry Computing

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Let There Be Light

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David Sarnoff

The General

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Alan MacDiarmid in 2000 at the Science History Institute.

Alan G. MacDiarmid, Alan J. Heeger, and Hideki Shirakawa
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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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Arnold O. Beckman, 1959.

Arnold O. Beckman
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Gordon Moore at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in 2005.

Gordon E. Moore
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Irving Langmuir at home enjoying Harper’s Magazine. Science History Institute

Irving Langmuir and Katharine Burr Blodgett
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The Original Blue LED

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