As seen on a plaque at Scienceworks in the House Secrets exhibit. James Dewar invented the vacuum flask in 1892 to keep laboratory gases cold. […]
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Tea bags: the unexpected
As seen on a plaque at Scienceworks in the House Secrets exhibit. A thrifty tea merchant from New York named Thomas Sullivan is credited with […]
Continue readingPenicillin: the unexpected
As seen on a plaque at Scienceworks. The penicillin mold was a pest, not a resource. Backteriologists went to great lengths to protect their bacterial […]
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