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The Science History Institute is an institution that preserves and promotes understanding of the history of science. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it includes a library, museum, archive, research center and conference center.
It was founded in 1982 as a joint venture of the American Chemical Society and the University of Pennsylvania, as the Center for the History of Chemistry (CHOC). The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) became a co-founder in 1984. It was renamed the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) in 1992, and moved two years later to the institution's current location, 315 Chestnut Street in Old City.On December 1, 2015, CHF merged with the Life Sciences Foundation, creating an organization that covers the history of the life sciences and biotechnology together with the history of the chemical sciences and engineering. As of February 1, 2018, the organization was renamed the Science History Institute, to reflect its wider range of historical interests, from chemical sciences and engineering to the life sciences and biotechnology.The Institute focuses not only on the history of chemistry but also on the history of science, the history of technology, trends in research and development, the impact of science on society, and relationships between science and art, among other subjects. It supports a community of research scholars and an oral history program. As of 2012, it was the largest US grantor of research fellowships for the history of science.
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REACH Ambler - Imagining Ambler
Like many northeastern American towns, Ambler once relied on a single factory for its economy and identity. Keasbey and Mattison, a producer of asbestos-containing products, opened its factory in Ambler in 1881. The company employed residents, built homes, opened businesses, founded cultural institutions, and created utility companies. After several sales the factory closed in 1987, leaving behind several waste sites—the “White Mountains” of asbestos. In 1983 and 2009 the EPA designated these former factory sites for Superfund cleanup, igniting community members to examine their history and contemplate Ambler’s future. What do residents want from the Ambler of tomorrow? Their hopes and concerns are captured in this video.
Resources for Education and Action for Community Health in Ambler (REACH Ambler) explores the history, environmental health, and community identity of Ambler, Pennsylvania, through a partnership between the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine and the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF). For more information visit reachambler.chemheritage.org.
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Chemical Heritage Foundation | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:55 1 History
00:02:50 1.1 Center for the History of Chemistry
00:06:46 1.1.1 Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry (BCHOC)
00:08:26 1.1.2 Othmer Library of Chemical History
00:09:23 1.2 Chemical Heritage Foundation
00:10:51 1.2.1 Creating a public museum
00:12:37 1.2.1.1 Alchemical collections
00:13:55 1.2.1.2 Instrument collections
00:15:48 1.2.1.3 The Arnold O. Beckman Permanent Exhibit and the Clifford C. Hach Gallery
00:17:32 1.3 Science History Institute
00:18:28 1.4 Leaders
00:19:32 2 Collections
00:24:04 3 iDistillations/i
00:24:41 4 Fellowships
00:24:58 5 Awards
00:26:15 6 See also
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The Science History Institute is an institution that preserves and promotes understanding of the history of science. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it includes a library, museum, archive, research center and conference center.
It was founded in 1982 as a joint venture of the American Chemical Society and the University of Pennsylvania, as the Center for the History of Chemistry (CHOC). The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) became a co-founder in 1984. It was renamed the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) in 1992, and moved two years later to the institution's current location, 315 Chestnut Street in Old City.On December 1, 2015, CHF merged with the Life Sciences Foundation, creating an organization that covers the history of the life sciences and biotechnology together with the history of the chemical sciences and engineering. As of February 1, 2018, the organization was renamed the Science History Institute, to reflect its wider range of historical interests, from chemical sciences and engineering to the life sciences and biotechnology.The Institute focuses not only on the history of chemistry but also on the history of science, the history of technology, trends in research and development, the impact of science on society, and relationships between science and art, among other subjects. It supports a community of research scholars and an oral history program. As of 2012, it was the largest US grantor of research fellowships for the history of science.
Rittenhouse Square| Philadelphia, USA
Rittenhouse Square- near the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. During the January 2016 Mid Atlantic Blizzard.
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The Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania gezmeli görmeli yerler
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The Franklin Institute is a science museum and the center of science education and research in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is named after the American scientist and statesman, Benjamin Franklin, and houses the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial. Founded in 1824, the Franklin Institute is one of the oldest centers of science education and development in the United States.
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Saving Millions of Lives | Spit Spreads Death: The Parade
In 1918, the worst flu in history hit Philadelphia. And a patriotic Liberty Loan Parade on Broad Street helped spread the disease. Within six months, 20,000 people had lost their lives.
On September 28th, 2019 over 400 people walked in the 'Spit Spreads Death Parade'. The parade was the first public commemoration to those who died in the pandemic anywhere in the United States.
Thank you so much to all of you who took part. By walking together, we made visible the crushing loss that swept through Philadelphia 100 years ago and honoured people who have often been overlooked.
The film of the parade will be being shown as part of the Mütter Museum’s five-year exhibit now open. Find out more about 'Spit Spreads Death: The Parade' at blasttheory.co.uk
'Spit Spreads Death: The Parade' is created by Blast Theory and commissioned by the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
Major support for Spit Spreads Death has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and the Institute for Museum and Library Services, with additional support from the Groff Family Memorial Trust and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, a state agency funded by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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Dirt Cheap - Philadelphia
Cheap things to do in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania! This episode brought to you by Wicked Brew in Bangor, Maine.
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This episode takes Chas to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he explores Philadelphia Museum of Art, Liberty Bell, Carpenters Hall and the Science History Institute. He dines and drinks at Black & Brew, Blue Cross River Rink,
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Ray’s Happy Birthday Bar and Fountain Porter. He stays at Apple Hostels. If you're considering traveling to the Philly, you can't miss this!
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A Day with Ben Franklin - Philadelphia Vlog
History Is Important! Our second day in Philadelphia was all Franklin all the time! We went by the Ben Franklin Museum, Franklin Court Printing Offices, and the Ghost Houses at Market Street. We also swung by the Franklin Fountain for delicious ice cream afterwards.
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Did a parade kill 20,000 people?
On September 28, 1918, 200,000 people gathered on Broad Street for the 4th Liberty Loan parade. Was the parade really responsible for the deaths of 20,000 people? Philadelphia's public health experts give us the answer.
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A procession of glowing white light travels along Broad Street at dusk. Hundreds of shadows in the failing light. Cell phones held aloft. The sound of choral voices drifts up into the night sky. You stop for a moment and catch your breath. The sculptures illuminate you, your friends and loved ones, before you move off again.
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HISTORY OF THE PARADE
The worst flu in history came to Philadelphia in 1918. 20,000 people were dead within six months.
A century later artists Blast Theory and the Mütter Museum bring a parade of light and sound to the streets of the city to commemorate this devastating event. Take a look at the project website at
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On September 28th join us to remember the Philadelphians who lost their lives to the flu and to pay tribute to today's health workers who keep us safe.
The parade is for everyone. Bring your grandmother, your kids and your dog. If you have connections to healthcare or you just know what it feels like to be sick, walk with us.
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Spits Spreads Death: The Parade is created by Blast Theory and commissioned by the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
Major support for Spit Spreads Death has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and the Institute for Museum and Library Services, with additional support from the Groff Family Memorial Trust and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, a state agency funded by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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Conservation Science & the Daguerreotype
Tracing the history of the daguerreotype from Paris to Philadelphia, this lecture explores the various improvements made to Daguerre's process and the ways in which it was used, examines the importance of Robert Cornelius as an American photographer, explains the history and ethics of conservation treatment and expands upon why conservation science-based research is necessary for the long-term preservation of our earliest national photographic treasures.
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Emerging from the Darkness: The End of the Drug War and the Rise of Recovery - April 2017
“Emerging from the Darkness: The End of the Drug War and the Rise of Recovery” was presented on April 20, 2017, by Dr. Kevin T. McCauley, MD; co-founder of the Institute on Addiction Study; writer of the award-winning DVD “Pleasure Unwoven” and the DVD “Memo To Self.” Not only have the ships for which we have waited for so long appeared on the horizon, some of them have now come into port. Parity. Treatment on demand. Stigma reduction. These once seemingly impossible dreams are today a reality. The White House creates an Office of Recovery and speaks openly about a Third Way for new policy. States legalize cannabis for - not medical - but recreational use, and create a giant natural experiment that will reveal previous certainties about its dangers as truth or fiction. Films, books, plays, and music put a human face on addiction, changing minds and hearts in the process. But most importantly, people are recovering. As we emerge from the rubble of the Drug War, we can rebuild on the foundation of astonishing brain research that has quietly accumulated through decades of zero-tolerance and mass incarceration. In this lecture, we will stop and realize this moment in history, and compare it to other challenges of health disparity and social inequality. We will review the rising science of recovery and explore concepts of recovery management. We will elucidate this Third Way, and consider the challenges it entails. We will explore innovative policies, enacted on local and national levels, which hold the promise of preventing addiction before it starts, treating it on a scale never before seen in the US, and re-enfranchising a battered but resilient American demographic. As groups of men and women, formerly living in the shadows, come together, define themselves, and become a people, we should not forget: History is watching.
This program is part of the Dawn Farm Education Series, a FREE, annual workshop series developed to provide accurate, helpful, hopeful, practical, current information about chemical dependency, recovery, family and related issues. The Education Series is organized by Dawn Farm, a non-profit community of programs providing a continuum of chemical dependency services. For information, please see
About The Presenter: Dr. Kevin McCauley, MD
Kevin McCauley, MD graduated from Drexel University Medical School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1992. He entered the United States Navy and received his Naval Flight Surgeon training at the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute in Pensacola, Florida. He was the flight surgeon for Heavy Marine Helicopter Squadron 363 at Marine Corps Air Station, Tustin, California and for Marine Fighter/Attack Training Squadron 101 at Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California. Dr. McCauley is the co-founder of the Institute for Addiction Study in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Director of Program Services at the New Roads Treatment Center in Sandy, Utah. He has served as President of the Utah Association of Recovery Residences in Salt Lake City, Utah, working with state and municipal agencies to promulgate best practices for local sober living home providers in order to strengthen the Recovery-Oriented System of Care in Utah. Dr. McCauley served as Director of Le Mont Michel in Sandy, Utah, from 2009 to 2013; helping with the design and implementation of a disease management/ residential recovery support program and also served as director of daily operations of an eight-bed sober living facility including training and supervision of staff, as well as analysis of outcome data. As co-founder of the Institute for Addiction Study, Dr. McCauley wrote and directed two films: “Pleasure Unwoven” about the neuroscience of addiction, and “Memo to Self” about Recovery Management in commercial airline pilots and professionals with substance use disorders. “Pleasure Unwoven” won the 2010 Michael Q. Ford Award for Journalism from the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers. Dr. McCauley travels between Utah and his home in Honolulu, Hawai`I where he lives with his wife, Kristine. His goals are to help those who wish to better understand addiction topics and to make difficult scientific concepts accessible to all. In his work, he strives to foster the acceptance of people in recovery as full and valued members of society.
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Spit Spreads Death: The Parade – Film Clip
In 1918, the worst flu in history hit Philadelphia. And a patriotic Liberty Loan Parade on Broad Street helped spread the disease. Within six months, 20,000 people had lost their lives.
On September 28th, 2019 over 400 people walked in the 'Spit Spreads Death Parade'. The parade was the first public commemoration to those who died in the pandemic anywhere in the United States.
Thank you so much to all of you who took part. By walking together, we made visible the crushing loss that swept through Philadelphia 100 years ago and honoured people who have often been overlooked.
The film of the parade will be being shown as part of the Mütter Museum’s five-year exhibit now open. Find out more about 'Spit Spreads Death: The Parade' at blasttheory.co.uk
'Spit Spreads Death: The Parade' is created by Blast Theory and commissioned by the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
Major support for Spit Spreads Death has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and the Institute for Museum and Library Services, with additional support from the Groff Family Memorial Trust and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, a state agency funded by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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Logan Square -- in Philadelphia
Logan Square -- in Philadelphia
Logan Circle, also known as Logan Square, is an open-space park in Center City Philadelphia's northwest quadrant and one of the five original planned squares laid out on the city grid. The circle itself exists within the original bounds of the square; the names Logan Square and Logan Circle are used interchangeably when referring to the park. Originally Northwest Square in William Penn's 1684 plan for the city, the square was renamed in 1825 after Philadelphia statesman James Logan. The park is the focal point of the eponymous neighborhood. Logan Square was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
History
Prior to the 1800's the city developed along the Delaware River, leaving the area around Logan Square as untouched forest through the American Revolution. Over the next quarter century the square served as a pasture, execution grounds, and graveyard, and hosted a gallows until the hanging of William Gross in 1823. With aims of redirecting public attention away from its previous morbid use, Philadelphia leased the square to the Orphans' Society from 1821 to 1830.
In 1842 an ordinance “made it an offense to drive or take into Logan, Penn, or Rittenhouse squares any ‘horse, cow, cart, wagon, carriage or wheelbarrow, except by permission, or place any wood, coal, rubbish, carrion, or offensive matter within either [sic] of the squares, or to climb on the trees, fences or gates . . . or to dig up the soil or injure the grass, or to run or walk over or lie on the same.’”[5]By the 1840s Philadelphia had begun a restoration of the square from its former days as a graveyard, lining the walks with trees, planting greenery and shrubbery, and constructing a wooden fence allowing the square to resemble Penn's vision of an urban green space. During this period, the city limited access to Logan Square to homeowners with property connected to the square who paid for its upkeep; the city constructed a wrought iron fence around the square in 1852.
In 1864 the square was the site of the Great Sanitary Fair, a fundraising event in support of the United States Sanitary Commission to help raise money, support, and buy medicine for the Union troops during the American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln visited the fair and donated forty-eight signed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation, which sold for $10 each. In 1881 the Pennsylvania Railroad constructed a viaduct that disconnected Logan Square and Rittenhouse Square, altering William Penn’s original plan of connectivity between the city's five squares. Before the 20th century the square was also used as a location for concerts and other community events.
Since the 1890's the city had envisioned constructing of a boulevard similar to the Parisian Champs-Élyséese and in 1907 the plans were approved. The square began to transform again: the original bounds of the square—18th Street to the East, 20th Street to the West, Race Street to the South and Vine Street to the North remain intact, and the square began to more closely resemble its appearance today, distinguished by its circle. Construction began in 1917 on a plan to connect Center City with Fairmount Park which later became a segment of Benjamin Franklin Parkway. It was designed by Jacques Gréber, a French landscape architect who converted Logan Square into a circle similar to the oval of the Place de la Concorde in Paris. Philadelphia even modeled its Free Library and Family Court Building after the twin buildings of the Hôtel de Crillon and the Hôtel de la Marine in Paris.
Among the sites in its immediate vicinity are the Swann Memorial Fountain at the center of the circle, Parkway Central Library, the former Philadelphia Family Court Building, the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Franklin Institute, Moore College of Art and Design, the Roman Catholic Cathedral-Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, and the Mormon Philadelphia Pennsylvania Temple.[10]
The circle itself is the subject of the local band The Wonder Years' song 'Logan Circle' from their studio album The Upsides.
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PHILADELPHIA - USA Travel Guide | Around The World
Philadelphia, located in Southeastern Pennsylvania, in the Mid-Atlantic region, is the fifth most-populous city in the United States. Often referred to as Philly, the city is coterminous with Philadelphia County. Philadelphia sits adjacent to the New Jersey and Delaware borders, and as such, its metropolitan area encompasses counties in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
Philadelphia, once the capital of the United States, plays an exemplary role in the history and life of the nation. Its colonial legacy and architecture are almost unrivaled and its universities, museums, companies and laboratories are world class. The city has also become an increasingly important cultural and artistic center as well in the past few decades. As Philadelphia rebounds from its mid-20th century decline, the city is now seen as a model for sustainable urban growth and a surprisingly affordable haven for those seeking the best of urban American life without the expense or pretense of other neighboring East Coast cities.
Travelers planning to visit multiple attractions may benefit from Philadelphia CityPASS, which grants admission to 6 Philadelphia attractions within 9 days of first use for a much reduced rate and includes expedited entry in some cases. The included attractions are: The Franklin Institute; Adventure Aquarium; Phila Trolley & The Big Bus Company, 24 hours of on-off privileges; Philadelphia Zoo; Option Ticket One with choice of either The Academy of Natural Sciences or the National Constitution Center and Option Ticket Two with choice of Please Touch Museum or Eastern State Penitentiary. A Weekend in Philly offers a detailed itinerary that includes several of these attractions.
Much of Philadelphia's art requires not a dollar to see and not a building to enter. Philadelphia has the largest collection of public art in the nation, courtesy of the city's innovative Mural Arts Program, designed to stop graffiti and enliven the city's buildings. They even provide a free tour. Other public art of note includes the many glass mosaics found throughout the city; a sampling of this great public art can be seen on South St. east of Broad.
Center City West is home to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Barnes Foundation, Academy of Natural Sciences, Franklin Institute Science Museum, Mutter Museum, Rosenbach Museum & Library and Rodin Museum. Center City East is home to the African American Museum, and Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia History. Old City is home to the National Museum of American Jewish History and Independence Seaport Museum. West Philly is home to the Please Touch Museum North Philly is home to the Wagner Free Institute of Science.
For most visitors, the landing point will be Center City, the downtown section of Philadelphia. It is bounded by Vine St. to the north, the Delaware River to the east, South St. to the south, and the Schuylkill River to the west. The 2010 Center City residential population of 57,000 makes it the third most populated central business district in America, behind New York City and Chicago. Other popular districts to visit are Old City, West Philly, and South Philly.