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Electronics

Shiny underside of a shaped CD 1990s

There Are More Fish in the C

Posed man looking at spotlight projection

How RCA Fell Flat on Flat-Screen TVs

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Museum

Print of Giovanni Francesco Camocio's "Humani Victus Instrumenta"

Making Senses

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Ken Shoulder with drone, 1993

The Frontiersman

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

James Lovelock's Electron Capture Detector

Research

Instruments

Research

Garry Kasparov plays a computer in chess

Thinking Machines: The Search for Artificial Intelligence

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Modern Books and Journals

Collections

Benjamin Gross

People

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

Irving Langmuir and Katharine Burr Blodgett

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Gordon Moore at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in 2005.

Gordon E. Moore

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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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Alan G. MacDiarmid, Alan J. Heeger, and Hideki Shirakawa

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Arnold O. Beckman, 1959.

Arnold O. Beckman

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trade secret document

Stealing Industry Secrets

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New York

Let There Be Light

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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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The Original Blue LED

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Finnigan Instrument Corporation Model 1015 GC/MS/DS

A Measure of Success

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David Sarnoff

The General

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Peter Lykos

A Life in Chemistry Computing

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Patterning the World: The Rise of Chemically Amplified Photoresists

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