Pollution
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Water Stories: Clean Water Act 50th Anniversary Open House

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Jeannette Clarke performs blood analysis with Perkin-Elmer Atomic Absorption Spectrophotomer

Women in Chemistry Tour

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Water testing at EPA facility

Water Tour

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Chemist James Mack

Mechanochemistry

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Downstream museum view

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

Speaking to the Future

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Disk with black and white quadrants with rope attached

The Simple Usefulness of the Secchi Disk

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PA Museums Award 2022

Institute’s ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Receives PA Museums Award
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Color illustration of a 19th-century cholera victim

John Snow Hunts the Blue Death

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Two floating men working in space station

Stuck Inside

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Ad for Hercules' Parlon paint 1940

Family Day

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ad for water toys 1954

Family Day

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Emblem 31 from Atalanta Fugiens 1618

Family Day

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Chemistry International: Downstream
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Ruth Patrick’s Lovely Creatures

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Water Pics exhibition

Water Pics
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Water Pics exhibition

Science History Institute Mounts New Outdoor Exhibition
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Institute’s ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Featured in Multiple Media Outlets
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Model of Delaware River Basin, 1964.

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Must-See Museum Exhibits in Philly This Fall
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Research curator Jesse Smith shows off Downstream exhibition

WHYY: Exhibition Traces a 200-Year History of Water Pollution in Philadelphia
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Miners Hauling Electronics Amidst Pollution

C&EN: Rare Earths’ Magic Comes at a Cost
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Take a Watery Journey through History and Science with Institute’s New ‘Downstream’ Exhibition Opening September 14
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Official Netflix movie poster for Space Sweepers

Inverse: Netflix’s Sci-Fi Epic Reveals a Real-Life Cosmic Danger
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Downstream museum view

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large crowd outside in city

Philadelphia Earth Week, Fifty Years On

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Image of the Johnny Horizon environmental test kit

Distilled #13: An Environmental Cowboy from the 1970s

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Historical photo of Philadelphia's Fairmount Water Works

How Philadelphia’s Water Pollution Problems Shaped the City

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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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Two women standing on street dabbing their eyes

Smith Griswold Sells the War against Smog

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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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Roger Eadley-Pryor takes a guided kayak tour of the Schuylkill River led by Drexel chemistry professor Pete DeCarlo and University of Pennsylvania environmental humanities professor Bethany Wiggin.

Imagining a Way Forward

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Greetings from Isotopia

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Scientific Apparatus at Dearborn Laboratory Facility 1934

The Greening of Chemistry

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