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Book reviews: Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United State...

Book reviews: Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United State...

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Book reviews: Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States

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Book reviews: Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States

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Norwich: Cambridge University Press

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The British journal for the history of science, 2018, Vol.51 (1), p.170

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English

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Norwich: Cambridge University Press

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[...]we start in the Brooklyn Children's Museum at the beginning of the twentieth century, as a prime example of an institution which attempted to create an exclusive space for children to learn science. From there on we are introduced to the rise of the interwar chemistry set, the establishment of the post-war Science Talent Search (STS), a juveni...

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Book reviews: Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Popular Science in the United States

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2011322293

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2011322293

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0007-0874

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1474-001X

DOI

10.1017/S0007087418000183

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