Chemical Collection (page 6)

Bob Thomson, deputy site manager celebrating safety success. For the first time in 30 years, ICI Wilton works has for a month churned out chemicals nonstop without an accident

A forest in Vietnam still showing the effects of Agent Orange 245-T Dioxin used by American Forces during the war. 27th June 1980

Andes, at 14, 000 feet are the geysers of El Tatio, the third largest geyser field in the world

Mawsons Chemical Laboratory, c1908, (1909)
Mawsons Chemical Laboratory. The bottles were coated with ice by condensation from the warm, moist air of the hut, c1908, (1909). The frozen laboratory of expedition physicist Douglas Mawson

Preparation of diethyl ether, wood engraving, published in 1880
Preparation of diethyl ether: condensation of ethyl alcohol (ethanol) and sulfuric acid at a temperature of 130 to 140 A C (273 to 413 A K). Wood engraving, published in 1880

Lead chamber for production of sulphuric acid, 1866. Also known as Oil of Vitriol or H2S04, sulphuric acid was one of the most important industrial chemicals

Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist. Berthollet (1748-1822) helped Antoine Lavoisier in his research into gunpowder and in devising the nomenclature that underpins the modern system for naming

Daltons table of atomic symbols, 1835. A table of atomic symbols from a lecture delivered by the English chemist John Dalton (1766-1844) at the Manchester Mechanics Institution, 19 October 1835

Students in class learning how to prepare sulphuric acid, Hampton Inst.. Va. between 1899 & 1900
Students in class learning how to prepare sulphuric acid, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. between 1899 and 1900

USA, Wyoming, Sinclair, Petro Chemical Refinery

HMS Diamond Escorting Ark Futura During Operation Recsyr
Type 45 destroyer HMS Diamond, whilst escorting the merchant ship Ark Futura during Operation Recsyr. HMS Diamond has completed her role escorting ships carrying Syrias chemical weapons stock for

Between black and white
Leif Løndal

Crop duster applying chemicals on wheat fields from Steptoe Butte near Colfax, Washington State, USA

Sanotogen advert
A woman appearing ??Run-down?. The advert offering Sanatogen to build your health back up. It was invented by the Bauer Chemical Co. in Germany in 1898. It is still sold today as vitamins. Date: 1925

Advert for Celanese, a chemical and speciality materials company whose products included acetate yarn and artificial silk. Date: 1943

Mil Mi-2Ch Chekla 00221. A chemical reconnaissance / smokescreen layer version of the Mi-2. This example has the exhaust / smoke-pipe extensions displaced from their proper positions ov the engine

Hawker Siddeley HS. 125 series F3B-RA G-AXPU
Hawker Siddeley HS.125 series F3B/RA G-AXPU (msn 25171), of Imperial Chemical Industries, at RAF Luqa on 4 November 1971. Date: 1971

ARP Cleansing and decontamination facility
Air Raid Precautions (ARP) - Gas Cleansing and decontamination facility. Date: 1937

British soldiers being gassed at Ypres. WWI
How the gas devil comes - Thick green mist came rolling towards the parapet On the 22nd April 1915 at Ypres, the Germans used poisonous chlorine gas for the first time

David Warburton, trades unionist, at a conference
David Warburton (b 1942), British trades unionist with the GMWU (General and Municipal Workers Union), seen here at a conference reading a copy of the Morning Star newspaper. Date: circa 1970s

Chemistry Laboratory at Tuskegee Institute
2623604 Chemistry Laboratory at Tuskegee Institute by Johnston, Frances Benjamin (1864-1952); (add.info.: Photographic print of the Chemistry Laboratory at Tuskegee Institute, California)

Electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elem... Muscle Shoals area, Alabama, 1942
Electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama

Electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make element... vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 1942
Electric phosphate smelting furnace used to make elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Smoke stack of TVA chemical plant where elemental... vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 1942. Creator: Alfred T Palmer
Smoke stack of TVA chemical plant where elemental phosphorus is made, vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama

TVA chemical plant, where elemental phosphorus is made, vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 1942
TVA chemical plant, where elemental phosphorus is made, vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama

A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making... Muscle Shoals area, Alabama, 1942
A large electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama

Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill, Tennessee, 1940. Creator: Marion Post Wolcott
Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill], Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land

A train bringing copper ore out of the mine, Ducktown, Tenn. 1939. Creator: Marion Post Wolcott
A train bringing copper ore out of the mine, Ducktown, Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land

TVA chemical plant, electric furnace loaded with phosphate, vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama

The Amateur Photographer (colour litho)
3094537 The Amateur Photographer (colour litho) by Browne, Tom (1872-1910); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Amateur Photographer. Postcard, early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

DDE-90035776
Petro-Chem Ship, English Channel Date: 22/03/2008

Tent interior in a pea pickers camp, Santa Clara County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tent interior in a pea pickers camp. Food supply and household equipment. Santa Clara County, California

The new aspects of war, a counter-attack by our infantry, with helmets and masks (colour litho)
2815812 The new aspects of war, a counter-attack by our infantry, with helmets and masks (colour litho) by Beltrame, Achille (1871-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: The new aspects of war)

Gunpowder invented, 1320 AD (engraving)
2788229 Gunpowder invented, 1320 AD (engraving) by Moreland, Arthur (1876-1951); Private Collection; (add.info.: Gunpowder invented, 1320 AD)

Saltpetre deposit in coastal lagoon, Ria Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, May, Digitally enhanced, removed dirt in lens. Bookplate

Production line - penicillin production Imperial Chemical Industries - 4 May 1944. Date: 1944

D O Hill, taken by his chemical assistant Robert Adamson (b / w photo)
5220359 D O Hill, taken by his chemical assistant Robert Adamson (b/w photo) by Hill, David Octavius (1802-70) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: D O Hill)

William Gossage (b / w photo)
3649837 William Gossage (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: William Gossage)

John Hutchinson (litho)
3649831 John Hutchinson (litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: John Hutchinson. Illustration for A History of the Chemical Industry in Widnes by D W F Hardie)

Cabinet laboratoire pour la production des surfaces sensibles (engraving)
3645236 Cabinet laboratoire pour la production des surfaces sensibles (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Henry Deacon (b / w photo)
3649861 Henry Deacon (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Henry Deacon. Illustration for A History of the Chemical Industry in Widnes by D W F Hardie)

John Brock (b / w photo)
3649847 John Brock (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: John Brock. Illustration for A History of the Chemical Industry in Widnes by D W F Hardie)

Thomas Robinson (b / w photo)
3649841 Thomas Robinson (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Thomas Robinson)

Holbrook Gaskell I (b / w photo)
3649839 Holbrook Gaskell I (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Holbrook Gaskell I)

John McClellan (litho)
3649832 John McClellan (litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: John McClellan. Illustration for A History of the Chemical Industry in Widnes by D W F Hardie)

Rumford Chemical Works - Yeast and Baking Powder, Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia
3709903 Rumford Chemical Works - Yeast and Baking Powder, Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876 (albumen print) by Centennial Photographic Co

A List of the Principal Colours used in Painting, with Notices of their Chemical and Artistical Properties
5199184 A List of the Principal Colours used in Painting, with Notices of their Chemical and Artistical Properties, by W Linton, Esquire (engraving) by English School

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