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Control Panel at Hercules Hopewell Plant, 1957. Photo: Science History Institute.

Detail of a barrel of radioactive material at the Naval Air Material Center’s Aeronautical Materials Laboratory, 1959. Photo: Science History Institute.

Trade Show Display Featuring Dow Styron, 1948. Dow Chemical Company. Photo: Science History Institute.

View inside the Science History Institute museum. Photo: J. Fusco for Visit Philadelphia.

Unidentified Beckman Instruments employees who worked on the LS 9800 liquid scintillation counter, 1981. Photo: Science History Institute.

Office Space at Dearborn Drug and Chemical Works Facility, circa 1905. Album of Early Dearborn Chemical Company Facilities, 1890s–1905. Photo: Science History Institute.

View of Laboratory No. 1 at the Crompton & Knowles Research Center in Gibraltar, Pennsylvania, 1966. Photo: Science History Institute.

Entrance to the Science History Institute at 315 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Photo: Science History Institute/Conrad Erb.

Laboratory at the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 1925. Photo: Science History Institute.

The Alchemist by Granet François-Marius. Oil on canvas, 1800–1899. Photo: Science History Institute.

Boardroom at Rohm and Haas Home Office Building, circa 1964. Photo: Science History Institute.

Our Othmer Library collections span nearly six miles of shelves. Photo: Science History Institute/Conrad Erb.

Dearborn Hospitality Suite at Young’s Million Dollar Pier, circa 1905. Album of Early Dearborn Chemical Company Facilities, 1890s–1905. Photo: Science History Institute.

Plastic Wares Sales Display Featuring Dow Styron, 1949. Photo: Science History Institute.

General view of the Physical Testing Laboratory located in the Educational Buildings at the Dow Chemical Company facility in Midland, Michigan, circa 1930s. Photo: Science History Institute.