Video of a symposium held for the opening of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. The event includes remarks from Arnold O. Beckman; Arnold…

Alan MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa, and Alan Heeger won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001 for their work on plastic polymers that can conduct electricity. This lecture, given by MacDiarmid at Ihwa Yŏja Taehakkyo…

This video is a narrated slide show of photographs taken during the American Institute of Chemists' tour of China in 1984. Photographs were taken and the slideshow is narrated by organic chemist Peter Throckmorton and…

A live theatrical performance of scenes from the play Oxygen, written by chemists Carl Djerassi and Roald Hoffmann. This early performance of the play was held at the Nobel Centennial Symposium at the Chemical Heritage…

This video was produced for Heritage Day 2004, an annual celebration of innovators and leaders in the field of molecular chemistry held by the Chemical Heritage Foundation (now the Science History Institute). Shown as…

This film produced by the group Californians Against the Toxics Initiative encourages Californians to vote against Proposition 65, formally titled The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. This bill…

Moore's Law at 40 was a symposium held at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (now the Science History Institute) on May 12-13, 2005 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the creation and publication of Moore's Law. This…

Moore's Law at 40 was a symposium held at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (now the Science History Institute) on May 12-13, 2005 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the creation and publication of Moore's Law. This…

Moore's Law at 40 was a symposium held at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (now the Science History Institute) on May 12-13, 2005 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the creation and publication of Moore's Law. This…

Moore's Law at 40 was a symposium held at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (now the Science History Institute) on May 12-13, 2005 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the creation and publication of Moore's Law. This…

Moore's Law at 40 was a symposium held at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (now the Science History Institute) on May 12-13, 2005 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the creation and publication of Moore's Law. This…

This video is aimed at college students interested in chemical engineering as a degree or a career. Recent graduates and early-career chemical engineers from a variety of employers and industries share their experiences…

This video, produced with funding from Monsanto Company, presents the science behind genetically modified crops, beginning with Gregor Mendel and leading up to the mid-1990s cutting edge research in drought and…

This is a promotional film for the National Plastics Hall of Fame, at the time housed in the National Plastics Center and Museum in Leominster, Massachusetts. Frank S. Marra narrates this short presentation about some…

This is a promotional video made by the Chemical Heritage Foundation (later to become the Science History Institute) in 1994, ahead of the renovation of and move to its current location at 315 Chestnut Street. The video…

A high school student who is nervous about failing his chemistry test is transported to a vaguely Middle Ages, high fantasy castle where he meets a wizard trying to invent better armor for a knight. The student teaches…

This film from E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company promotes several of their inventions by showing how they are made and (using actors and film sets) how useful they are in everyday life. Products include: Neoprene,…

This video was likely shown to new hires or at recruitment events for Perkin-Elmer in the late 1980s. The video highlights the accomplishments of the company, including its technology being used to fight air and water…

This fundraising appeal from the National Plastics Center and Museum aims to raise money for renovating a building in Leominster, Massachusetts to use as a museum, with exhibition galleries and conference rooms. This…

This film about Joseph Priestley and his life in Pennsylvania was created by chemistry students at Mifflinburg Area High School in partnership with the Central Susquehanna Intermediate Unit television station and the…

Video of a performance presented by COSI (Center of Science and Industry) during the 1996 Ohio Chemical Council annual conference in Columbus, Ohio. In this performance, host Krista teaches the audience about chemical…

This is a promotional work created by the National Plastics Center and Museum to advertise their educational video, Passing Through. Passing Through is a film for teenagers and high school science students in which a…

Promotional video created for the 2000 reopening of the Chemical Heritage Foundation's building at 315 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania following renovations. Originally founded as the Center for the…

"Radioactivity and the Parts of an Atom" is one of fifty-three short education films originally produced in 1955 for KQED San Francisco as part of the series Tempest in a Test Tube. This series of half-hour episodes…