NEWARK MUSEUM PREPARES AN EXHIBIT OF INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY FOR THE LAYMAN AS A NEW CHAPTER in its series of industrial exhibits, the Newark Museum (Newark, N. J.) has in preparation an exhibit for the layman which will be known as "Chemistry Changes Our World: An Exhibit of the New Discoveries for Industry and the Home." This is in furtherance of the Museum's policy of presenting exhibits related to the industries of its community, hut because of the smpe and timeliness of the Chemistry Exhibit, it is expected to attract national interest. Already more than one hundred national firms have accepted invitations to coeperate in the exhibit, which will open about the middle of March. Among the first to offercooperation were the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc., Celanese Corporation, The Bakelite Corporation. The Beetleware Corporation, E. R. Squibb & Sans, The Celluloid Cor@oration. Westinghause Electric Company, Public Service Electric and Gas Co., Texas Gulf Sulphur Co., and others. Among those who have offered to act in an advisory capacity to the exhibit, are Dr. E. C. Worden of the Worden Laboratories, Professor William T. Read of Rutgers University. Dr. John H. Schmidt, Chairman of the North Jersey Section of the American Chemical Society, and Donald Deskey, decorator, of New York City.
The purpose of the Museum's exhibit is t o dramatize the many ways in which chemistry has afiected e-day life, so that the average penon m y be led to appreciate the tremendous rMe which chemistry plays in the modern world. In one section will be shownrooms furnished ccmpletely with materials created by chemistry. In the section devoted to textiles and clothing will be shown figures dressed completely in synthetic materials. The story of the skyscraper and the many contributions which chemistry has made to the building trades will he featured in another exhibit. Other sections will deal with research chemistry, industrial wastes, corn products, coal tar, plastics, sulfur, and sulfuric acids. Special educational features of aterest to the general public are being scheduled for the duration of the exhibit. A series of speakers prominent in the field of industrial and research chemistry are being invited to talk in explanation of various aspects of the exhibit. A series of educational moving pictures dealing with chemistry is also being arranged. A living room, designed by Donald Deskey, the New Yark decorator, and furnished entirely with synthetic materials is expected t o be one of the most popular features of the exhibit.
