This is a short story by Theodore Gray about the installation of the Periodic Table Display at DePauw University.

Max Whitby and I recently built a periodic table display for the fancy new Julian Science and Mathematics Center at DePauw University in Indiana. //

The display is 10 feet wide and 7 feet tall and boy is it beautiful. //

Each element has its own six inch cube, and one of the most remarkable things about the display is the lighting: Five super-bright LEDs per cube, mounted on circuit boards designed by Max and individually aimed to highlight the particular samples.

As we had hoped, up close this gives very much the impression of a hundred separate displays, rather than one display with a hundred parts.