Industrial Revolution (1750 - 1850)
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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Philadelphia Inquirer: Decay, Rot on Display at Chemical Heritage Museum
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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

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Jean-Olivier Richard

Jean-Olivier Richard

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Lynne Friedmann

Lynne Friedmann

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ChemCrafter for the iPad

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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
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Rare Books
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Jane Marcet

Mrs. Chemistry

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Brave New Butter

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Sir Joseph Banks

High Society

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Neanderthal skull

Ancient DNA

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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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Manufacturing the Weather

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Color booklet for paint

The Devouring Element

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Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever Fiend

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How to detect adulterated food and medicine

Secret Ingredient

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A watercolor of five surgeons participating in an amputation without anesthetic.

Painless Dreams

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Powerful Effervescence

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Alfred Swaine Taylor on poisons

Palmer the Poisoner

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The Laboratorio Chimico at the Museum of Science at the University of Lisbon

Elements of the Past

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Hubble Space Telescope

Whales in Space

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Lancets and a blood collecting bowl

Let It Bleed

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Not-so-safe chemistry lab practices, ca. 1910

Not-So-Great Moments in Chemical Safety

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An Everyday Poison

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William Crookes

Champion of Victorian Science

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The BGL Chemical Set

Chemistry at Play

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Lavoisier and Wife

Revolutionary Instruments: Lavoisier’s Tools as Objets d’Art

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Up in the Air

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