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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
Museum
Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot

Things Fall Apart
Museum
Second Skin exhibit

Second Skin: The Science of Stretch
Museum
Illustration of tapping serum from a horse in a pharmacy

Animals and the Making of Human Vaccines
Museum
Ad for colored stockings 1955

Nylon: From Labs to Legs
Museum
Ad for colored stockings 1955

Ex Libris Universum: Museum Tour
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Illustration of women in colorful clothing

Fit to Be Dyed

Distillations Article
Ad for colored stockings 1955

Digital Exhibitions
Museum
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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The French Connection

Distillations Article

Ruining Rags

Distillations Video
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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