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Things Fall Apart: An Interview with Exhibition Curator Elisabeth Berry Drago

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Women’s Work

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Learning to Move with Move to Learn

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How to Make Magical Clothing with Tech

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Idea Lab: Students Talk Gender and Science

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LZR Racer

Winning Skin

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Yarn inspection at Du Pont

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First Friday: Second Skin—The Science of Stretch

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Othmer Library Open House: The Golden Age of Science Advertising

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Carl “Speed” Marvel in PBI vest

Tough Stuff

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

Robert W. Gore

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Natrually dyed fibers

To Dye For

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True Blue: DuPont and the Color Revolution

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The French Connection

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Museo Territoriale Bassa Friulana

A Future Woven in Rayon

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

Nylon: A Revolution in Textiles

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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

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William Henry Perkin

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Wallace Hume Carothers

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Stephanie Kwolek at a polarizing microscope.

Stephanie L. Kwolek

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Ruth Benerito.

Ruth Benerito

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Making Modernity exhibition at the Museum at CHF.

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Blow Pipe Kit

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Making Modernity

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Scientists You Must Know Video

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Ruining Rags

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