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flying machines zooming between gigantic towers and over sweeping
bridges. (Morrison, p. 279)
Figure 3. Futuristic city, from Morrison 1937, p. 279.
8.
Key Images of Chemistry and Chemists
The first illustration of
Man in a Chemical World
has become one of the
best-known images from chemistry in the era. It was the color frontis-
piece entitled 'Chemical Industry, Upheld by Pure Science, Sustains the
Production of Man's Necessities' (Morrison, frontis).
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It is a striking
image, showing an Atlas figure carrying the modern industrial world
above his head. Supporting the elbows of Atlas was a woman (the
personification of Pure Science or Athena), clad in a flowing gown. The
Athena figure looks directly at the viewer, while the Atlas figure's head
is bowed under his load. Behind the figures are arrayed chemical appa-
ratus and a halo of bright orange and yellow light surrounds them.
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For a color version, see Schlüpmann 1994.
