Industrial Revolution (1750 - 1850)

WHYY: Frankenstein, now 200 years old, shows its roots
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Comité Lavoisier

Franklin-Lavoisier Prize Presentation

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stereoscope with stereograph

Distilled #4: Virtual Reality in the 19th Century

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Looking at Lavoisier

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Fellow in Focus Lecture: science television

An Electric Education: How to Teach Science on Television

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Opioids’ Devastating Return

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Probing the Mysteries of Human Digestion

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Othmer Library Open House: Escape the Archives

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Book Club: Frankenstein in the 21st Century

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Philadelphia Inquirer: Scans Reveal Secrets of Medieval ‘Harry Potter’ Book and Medical Texts at Penn
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WHYY: Age of Alchemy a “Must-See New Art Exhibit”
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Age of Alchemy: Curator Elisabeth Berry Drago Discusses Exhibition Highlights and Myth Busting in Alchemy’s Golden Age

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Brown Bag Lecture: The Recognition of Pseudomorphism: Mineral Chemistry as a Historical Science

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The Alchemist and His Wife, ca. 1928, by Jacques Hammerer, after 17th-century original by David Ryckaert III.

Age of Alchemy Exhibition Opening

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Serious Fun

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Old Friends

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The Alchemist and His Wife, ca. 1928, by Jacques Hammerer, after 17th-century original by David Ryckaert III.

Age of Alchemy
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Fellow in Focus: Technology and Society: Engineering Cultures, Chemistry, and Social Order in the Second Industrial Revolution (1890 to 1930)

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What’s in a Logo?

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Brown Bag Lecture: Ways of Seeing: Gray’s Anatomy and the Making of a Modern Textbook

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An 1822 star map by Alexander Jamieson shows the constellation Telescopium Herschelii, depicted here, ironically, as a refracting telescope.

A Giant of Astronomy

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Technical.ly: Philly Orgs Get $100K Grant to Make Video Game about . . . Alchemy
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Fizzy Water

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Fit as a Fiddle: The Remarkable Lives of Cremonese Violins

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Labor of Lovelace: A Children’s Introduction to a Programming Giant

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Broad Street Review: Eve of Destruction
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Our Mutual Friend

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The Age of Scurvy

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Fellow in Focus: Fresh Air, Foul Odors, and the Growth of American Cities

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First Friday: Choose Your Own Adventure

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Rebecca Ortenberg, a program associate in the Institute's Institute for Research. Photo by Emma Lee, WHYY.

NewsWorks: Audio tour highlights historic preservation flash points in Philly's Old City
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The Chemical Heritage Foundation Presents New Exhibition and Walking Tour—Things Fall Apart
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Things Fall Apart: An Interview with Exhibition Curator Elisabeth Berry Drago

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Cain Conference 2017: Chemistry in the Americas, 1500−1800

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Amputation

Auld Medicine

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Humphry Davy

Left Behind

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Nitrous oxide party

High Times

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Second Skin: The Science of Stretch
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Walter Potter's Monkey Riding a Goat

Death and Taxidermy

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Thomas Apel

Thomas Apel

People
Jean-Olivier Richard

Jean-Olivier Richard

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Lynne Friedmann

Lynne Friedmann

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Haeckel illustration of hummingbirds

Information Overload

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Historical Biographies
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Medusa Nebula

Elements of Invention

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Cottingley Fairy

The Magic of It All

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Esperanto postcard

Speaking in Tongues

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Puck magazine cover, March 12, 1884.

Science, Protector of the Common Good

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Modern Books and Journals
Collections

Rare Books
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John William Draper

Across the Spectrum

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English royal gardens at Kew, Richmond

No Ill Nature: The Surprising History and Science of Poison Ivy and Its Relatives

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Recherches Chimiques

Materials Matter

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Detail of a European stained glass image of St. George from the early 15th century.

From Nanotech to Nanoscience

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Barnum & Bailey Poster

Strange Things

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Illustration depicting an early 19th-century London street scene with citizens commenting on the recent invention of gas-lighting.

Bright Light

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An 1830 engraving of Sir Humphry Davy, by G. R. Newton, after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830).

Science and Celebrity: Humphry Davy's Rising Star

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Jane Marcet

Mrs. Chemistry

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Blockade Against Blockade or John Bull a Match for Boney

The Blockade Runner

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