Innocent experiments: childhood and the culture of popular science in the United States

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Curious Century -- 1 Wonder House: The Brooklyn Children's Museum as Beautiful Dream -- 2 Science in the Basement: Selling the Home Lab in the Interwar Years -- 3 Embryo Scientists: Finding and Saving Postwar "Science Talent" -- 4 Space Cadets and Rocket Boys: Policing the Masculinity of Scientific Enthusiasms -- 5 The Exploratorium and the Persistence of Innocent Science -- Conclusion: Looking Closer at "Kids Are Little Scientists" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G