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Textiles & Fabrics
Ad for L’Insectoline

Biting Words

Museum
People wearing half-chest binders

Redefining Nude

Museum
Europium (III) Hydroxide [Eu(OH)₃] under UV Light

Critical Metals: The Chemistry of Light

Museum
The BGL Chemical Set

Science at Play

Museum
Oil painting of an alchemist reading

Age of Alchemy

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Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot

Things Fall Apart

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Second Skin exhibit

Second Skin: The Science of Stretch

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Illustration of tapping serum from a horse in a pharmacy

Animals and the Making of Human Vaccines

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Ad for colored stockings 1955

Nylon: From Labs to Legs

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Ad for colored stockings 1955

Ex Libris Universum: Museum Tour

Media Coverage
Illustration of women in colorful clothing

Fit to Be Dyed

Distillations Article
Ad for colored stockings 1955

Digital Exhibitions

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Man pulling on a white tube of polymer

Bob Gore’s Cozy Revolution

Distillations Article
Robert W. Gore demonstrating the expansion of ePTFE, ca. 1982.

Science History Institute Mourns Loss of Bob Gore

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Women wearing orange yoga pants and yellow sneakers

The Yoga Pant Problem

Distillations Podcast

Women’s Work

Distillations Article
LZR Racer

Winning Skin

Distillations Article
Carl “Speed” Marvel in PBI vest

Tough Stuff

Distillations Article
Robert W. Gore demonstrating the expansion of ePTFE, ca. 1982.

Robert W. Gore

Historical Profile

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Stephanie Kwolek at a polarizing microscope.

Stephanie L. Kwolek

Historical Profile
Ruth Benerito.

Ruth Benerito

Historical Profile
A photograph that William Henry Perkin took of himself at the age of 14—four years before he discovered the first synthetic dyestuff.

William Henry Perkin

Historical Profile
Wallace H. Carothers, shown here with neoprene.

Wallace Hume Carothers

Historical Profile

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Making Modernity exhibit at the Science History Institute

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Blow Pipe Kit

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The French Connection

Distillations Article

Ruining Rags

Distillations Video
Detail of a burlap sack for H. Kohnstamm and Company’s Simplex Soap. When recently laundered clothes started to disintegrate in the early 20th century, angry customers turned to laundries, which in turn looked to soap manufacturers, such as Kohnstamm, for

Going to Pieces: A Detective Story

Distillations Article
Natrually dyed fibers

To Dye For

Distillations Article
Museo Territoriale Bassa Friulana

A Future Woven in Rayon

Distillations Article
A giant leg, 35 feet high, advertised nylons to the Los Angeles area.

Nylon: A Revolution in Textiles

Distillations Article

True Blue: DuPont and the Color Revolution

Distillations Article
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