A Things of Science unit from May, 1963 on metal fasteners.
Here is the booklet:
Things of Science #271 — Metal Fasteners
More Things of Science scanned here.
The things:
A Things of Science unit from April, 1963 on cotton.
Here is the booklet (whiten which you will discover the definition of “nappy”):
Things of Science #270 — Cotton
An extra sheet showing the cotton process here:
Things of Science #270 — Cotton (insert)
More Things of Science scanned here.
The things:
A Things of Science unit from March, 1963 on enzymes.
Here is the booklet:
Things of Science #269 — Enzymes
More Things of Science scanned here.
The things:
A Things of Science unit from September, 1962 on taste. The booklet was in poor shape when I scanned it. It required a lot of post-work to fix it up. I think the gum or some other “thing” in the unit had soiled it. Oh well.
Here is the booklet:
Things of Science #265 — Taste
More Things of Science scanned here.
The things:
A Things of Science unit from October, 1962 on silk. I was surprised to see an actual silkworm cocoon in the unit. And this is an unusual booklet in that it has photographs (reproduced with half-toning of course).
Here is the booklet:
More Things of Science scanned here.
The things:
A Things of Science unit from September, 1962 on silicones. Another one of the sort of “material sciences” units.
Here is the booklet:
Things of Science #263 — Silicones
More Things of Science scanned here.
The things:
A Things of Science unit from August, 1962 on probability. I’ve already scanned in a unit just like this one.
Here is the booklet:
Things of Science #262 — Probability
More Things of Science scanned here.
The things:
A Things of Science unit from July, 1962 on marble (the mineral).
Here is the booklet:
Things of Science #261 — Marble
More Things of Science scanned here.
The things:
A Things of Science unit from June, 1962 on surface tension.
Here is the booklet:
Things of Science #260 — Surface Tension
More Things of Science scanned here.
The things (not very obvious, a very thin capillary tube or two in the slots cut in the styrofoam):
Sometime around the middle of 1962, the name Ruby Yoshioka appears in a Things of Science booklet. She is, at that time, credited “Production by…”. In the decades that follow, her name is associated with each release of Things of Science — through, I think, their strongest years.
Googling around I found her obituary:
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