Edmund Scientific in Movies and Television
- Wah Chang, the artist who designed and built several props in the 1960s for Star Trek, used moiré patterns found in the Edmund Scientific Educator's and Designer's Moiré Kit for the texture used in the Starfleet communicator props.
- Edmund Scientifics has provided items used in television shows such as House, MythBusters, 24, Modern Marvels, motion pictures such as Star Trek, and the new version of Escape to Witch Mountain.
- Edmund Scientific was referenced in the Simpsons episode "Two Bad Neighbors" (original airdate January 14, 1996) where Bart Simpson carries a box of locusts labeled with Edmund Scientific to play a retaliatory prank on new neighbor George H. W. Bush.
- In episode 14 "Farthing's Comet" of the 1970s television show, "The Star Lost" the three main characters visit "the observatory". Off in the corner of the room can be seen a 1960s Edmund Scientific 6 inch reflector telescope.
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