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    For your eyes only: Visiting the unlikely gadgets of ‘007 Science’ at Chicago exhibit

    CHICAGO — The last time we saw James Bond he was being blown to bits. Sorry, but “No Time to Die” is three years old now and the spoiler statute of limitations has expired. Chris Corbould blew him up. He’d been trying to blow up 007 since 1977, beginning with “The Spy Who Loved Me.” We met the other day at the Museum of Science and Industry in Hyde Park, which has a new exhibit of Bond gadgets ...
    by Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune Mar 18, 2024 5 minutes
    A tuxedo worn by Daniel Craig in“ No Time to Die” is displayed in the new exhibit,“ 007 Science: Inventing the World of James Bond,” at the Museum of Science and Industry.

    CHICAGO — The last time we saw James Bond he was being blown to bits.

    Sorry, but “No Time to Die” is three years old now and the spoiler statute of limitations has expired. Chris Corbould blew him up. He’d been trying to blow up 007 since 1977, beginning with “The Spy Who Loved Me.” We met the other day at the Museum of Science and Industry in Hyde Park, which has a new exhibit of Bond gadgets and Bond vehicles and Bond-centric lessons in physics, technology, deception and the staging of insanely large explosions. It’s called “007 Science: Inventing the World of James Bond.”

    Corbould, an Oscar-winning special effects supervisor, brought along Meg Simmonds, the director of archives for EON Productions, the British family business that makes James Bond movies. Simmonds’ job is to gather artifacts

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