Chemical Collection (page 8)

James Muspratt (litho)
3649830 James Muspratt (litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: James Muspratt. Illustration for A History of the Chemical Industry in Widnes by D W F Hardie)

Colour photography (chromolitho)
961468 Colour photography (chromolitho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Colour photography)

Christmas Handbill for Six Elementary Lectures on Chemistry
TRI141705 Christmas Handbill for Six Elementary Lectures on Chemistry by Michael Faraday (1778-1829) 3 December 1827 (litho) by English School, (19th century); The Royal Institution, London

R. W. L. Rasin & Co. Chemical Fertilizer Works, Baltimore, Maryland
3077397 R.W.L. Rasin & Co. Chemical Fertilizer Works, Baltimore, Maryland, Hexamer General Surveys, 1880 (colour litho) by Hexamer

WWI gas attack: an American soldier chokes having failed to don his mask
702015 WWI gas attack: an American soldier chokes having failed to don his mask, 1917-18 (b/w photo) by American Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; Peter Newark Pictures; American

Chemical Lectures, c. 1809 (engraving) (later colouration)
XCF309503 Chemical Lectures, c.1809 (engraving) (later colouration) by Rowlandson, Thomas (1756-1827); (add.info.: The inscription Surrey Insitution on the door frame)

A L Usine De Produits Chimiques De Hoechst, pres Francfort (b / w photo)
6006542 A L Usine De Produits Chimiques De Hoechst, pres Francfort (b/w photo) by European Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A L Usine De Produits Chimiques De Hoechst)

The Peoples Palace and East London College, Mile End, London (b / w photo)
6013674 The Peoples Palace and East London College, Mile End, London (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Peoples Palace and East London College)

Eastern Front (litho)
978978 Eastern Front (litho) by German School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Eastern Front. Gas grenades)

Sir Holbrook Gaskell (b / w photo)
3649852 Sir Holbrook Gaskell (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sir Holbrook Gaskell)

Sir Max Muspratt (b / w photo)
3649850 Sir Max Muspratt (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Sir Max Muspratt)

Ferdinand Hurter (b / w photo)
3649849 Ferdinand Hurter (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Ferdinand Hurter)

Edmund Knowles Muspratt (litho)
3649840 Edmund Knowles Muspratt (litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Edmund Knowles Muspratt)

Invitation to Lectures On Chemistry, Guys Hospital, London, 1824 (engraving)
3657220 Invitation to Lectures On Chemistry, Guys Hospital, London, 1824 (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Invitation to Lectures On Chemistry)

Painting being manufactured at the Beardill Victoria Works in The Wells Road, Nottingham. 20th February 1965

Soap architects at Port Sunlight. Uniformed guides take visitors around the great soap works of Messrs Lever Brothers Ltd

60 firemen tackle blaze at ICI North Tees near Billingham, 2nd January 1972. The fire was located at the No.1 Aromatic Plant

Palls of smoke spread over Redcar and as far as Skelton when a fire started near the Shell refinery at Teesport, 1st September 1971

Air Products. A group of proud Cleveland truckers must be walking on air this week after scooping a major national safe driving award

Russian soldiers seen here suffering the effects of poison gas being cared for by members of the Russian Red Cross not far from the front line trenches. Circa August 1915

Experimental reed beds at ICI Billingham. Frank Holliday, environmental office for Chemical Products Business at the plant, watches over the spot where liquid waste will be cleaned by nature

ICI, Billingham. Chicken production, with John Harvey (left) and technical manager Phil Jones, 21st August 1986

ICI owned Wilton Castle, with the towers of industry in the background. 19th April 1979

General view of cooling towers at ICI, Wilton. 11th August 1977

ICIs new Woodlands day nursery, 16th April 1992

Abnormal load being transported from Redpath Engineering Services Ltd, Portrack, to ICIs Quorn plant at Billingham. The 240 foot long load turns off the A19 to go up Billingham Bank, 2nd May 1993

Lorry arriving at ICI Billingham site, 30th May 1991

ICIs new Woodlands day nursery being opened by Mrs Henderson the wife of ICI Chairman Denys Henderson, 16th April 1992

Two million working hours without an accident resulting in lost time has given ICI employees the chance to boost Cleveland charities

ICI, Billingham. The two twin cooling towers are being systematically demolished. 26th June 1978

Youngsters are completing the finishing touches to the conversion of the 20 year old caravan as part of their youth training course at the ICI-backed centre

A birds eye view of ICI Billingham - the proposed site for the nuclear dump. 29th August 1984

Four shop stewards at ICI Billingham who served their union for a total of 137 years have been presented with tokens of appreciation

ICI Billingham, plants are springing up in central Middlesbrough. But instead of chemical plants, its the lush vegetation of Philodendron

ICI Fibres Fashion show. ICI models showing off the fashion fibres. Left to right, Susan Cooper, Elaine Wright, Linda Renton, Angie Chapman, Helen Lisle

A general view of ICI Wilton, 24th September 1992

British soldier wearing chemical warfare suit August 1990 at RAF Coltishall, of the type used in the Gulf War

Firefighters are decontaminated after dealing with the chemical spillage at the scene

James Hyatt Inhaling Chlorine Gas, 1850-55. Creator: Peter Welling
James Hyatt Inhaling Chlorine Gas, 1850-55

ELECTRO-CHEMICAL PHONE
Edisons Electro-chemical telephone. Date: 1879

BELLS / EDISONS T-PHONES
Graham Bells first telephone, hand telephone and long- distance telephone, shown alongside Edisons transmitter, and loud speaking phone. Date: late 19th century

A German Chemist (or Alchemist!) and his assistants busy in a chemical laboratory. Date: 17th century

PRIESTLEYS BATTERY 64-cell electro-chemical battery, invented by Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), English clergyman and chemist. Date: 1810

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China, Jiangsu, Qidong, Female farmer with a backpack sprayer applying pesticide on vegetables being grown on the bank of a polluted canal

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Kenya, plane spraying crops

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Sri Lanka, Nuwara Eliya, Hand painted billboard poster advertising Glycel weed killer fertiliser from Anglo Asian Fertilisers containing Glyphosate a systemic herbicide originally patented by

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USA, Florida, Tampa, An attempt to put an environment friendly face on oil storage tanks along Maritime Boulevard, heaps of coal and chemicals in front of industrial plant

German Chemist (or Alchemist!) and his assistants
A German Chemist (or Alchemist!) and his assistants busy in a chemical laboratory. Date: circa 1600

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