Carbon Collection

The Murchison CM2 carbonaceous chondrite
Murchison fell in September 1969, in Victoria, Australia. It is rich in indigenous (i.e. not terrestrial contaminant) amino acids and other organic molecules

Nikolai Zelinsky
NIKOLAI ZELINSKY Russian scientist, invented the first carbon-filter gas mask, winner of many Soviet awards

Cut diamond and crystals
A cut diamond surrounded by rough crystals. Diamond is comprised of compacted carbon and is the hardest natural substance known on Earth

Rocks, Carbon
Various types of carbon including crystallised diamond, graphite, slate coal and peat

Wrench carbon arc lamp for magic lantern projector

Peat cutting shoe - 2
Mr Albert Allmark, cutting peat by traditional, sustainable methods, Wixhall Moss, Shropshire. Mr Allmark demonstrates a home-made peat cutting shoe

Industrial peat cutting, Wixhall Moss, Shropshire Date: 1990

Peat cutting shoe - 1
Albert Allmark, cutting peat by traditional, sustainable methods, Wixhall Moss, Shropshire. Mr Allmark demonstrates a home-made peat cutting shoe. First published The Sunday Correspondent Date: 1990

Peat cutter, Shropshire
Mr Albert Allmark, cutting peat by traditional, sustainable methods, Wixhall Moss, Shropshire. He stands by a stack of cut peat with his pet dog. His old tractor is behind him

Advert for Silicated Carbon Filter Company 1888
Patent Silicated Carbon Filter, each time that the fiter is filled the air under the Aerator Cover is forced in the direction shown by the arrows through the Silicated Carbon block

Didcot Power station
With the cooling towers pushing out lots of steam, the photographer captures a dramatic picture. Taken in the late 60s Date: late 1960s

Diamond crystal
Natural diamond crystal in Kimberlite from Kimberley, South Africa. Kimberlite is the rock in which diamonds occur. The rock was named after the the South African site, Kimberley

Best carbon block filters, Plate 40
Best carbon block filters fitted with anti-corrosive taps, Plate 40, for obtaining purified water in different locations. Date: circa 1880s

The First German Coke Oven. 18th century
The First German Coke Oven. Diorama. 18th century. Deutches Museum. Munich. Germany

Half-length coat by Elsa Schiaparelli
Half-length coat designed by Elsa Schiaparelli. The coat is made in carbon blue embroidered with black soutache. The skirt is blue

Summit Hill Railway Station, Carbon, Pennsylvania, USA. Mauch Chunk (Now Jim Thorpe), Summit Hill & Switchback Railroad Date: 1910s

Fire prevention training for student nurses
Fire prevention training for a class of student nurses. A sub-officer of the fire prevention branch demonstrates the operation of a carbon dioxide extinguisher

Vigarano CV3 chondrite
This carbonaceous chondrite meteorite fell in Italy in 1910. It has clearly delineated chondrules or small granules

Interstellar diamonds
This specimen is known as the Allende meteorite. When viewed under a transmission electron microscope it shows formations of tiny interstellar diamonds

Diamond crystals
Clockwise from top left (yellow matrix): in beach conglomerate from Namaqualand, in kimberlite from South Africa and in matrix from Siberia (bottom)

Cold Bokkeveld meteorite photomicrograph
Thin section of the carbonaceous chondrite in the petrological microscope, showing a near circular chondrule about 1mm in diameter. The fall was in Cape Province in 1838

Charcoal
Specimen of commercial charcoal produced from wood. Charcoal is created by burning organic substances such as wood in the absence of oxygen

Coal

Graphite
A specimen of graphite from Sri Lanka. One form of carbon formed naturally close to the Earths surface

Diamond
A form of carbon. The brilliant, hard diamond, is formed under conditions of vast pressure and heat deep wihtin the earth

Some crystal forms of carbon
Seen here are rough diamonds or boarts surrounding a diamond crystal which have been photographed on a base of graphite. Diamond is the hardest known mineral on Earth

Coal, from the late carboniferous
Coal is formed from fossil plants. The regular pattern on the surface of this 14 cm long piece is the impression of the bark of a fossil tree; Lepidodendron

Carbon filament lamps. From the book Diccionario
" Carbon filament lamps. From the book " Diccionario general de Arquitectura e Ingenier� quot; " by Pelayo Clairac y S᥮ z (1879). Engraving. SPAIN. Madrid

LCC-MFB petrol driven motor tender
This chain transmission driven first-aid tender carried the first small water tank which operated under pressure of carbon dioxide gas

Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas. Date 1942

Portable Light Bath
This portable Light Bath immerses the patient in light from carbon filament lamps. [This catalogue contains 2000 pages of medical apparatus] Date: 1930

Underwater Laboratory
Physicist Brian Ray, testing the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere in Sealab II, Britains first permanent underwater laboratory, 30 feet beneath the waves off Plymouth Date: 1960s

M. Moissans diamond experiments
Ferdinand Frederick Henro Moissan (1852-1907) pictured with his electric furnace. Born in Paris, Moissan was an artificial diamond maker

The Bude Lights in Trafalgar Square
Bude lights in Trafalgar Square, London. Patented by Sir Goldsworthy Gurney in 1839, the Bude light introduced oxygen gas into the middle of a standard oil lamp flame

Bude light
A large Bude light in Trafalgar Square. Invented by Sir Goldsworthy Gurney and patented in 1839, the light worked by introducing oxygen gas into the middle of a standard oil lamp flame

Edisons electric lamp
Components of the electric lamp patented by Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) in 1879. The lamp worked by passing an electric current through a carbon filament enclosed in a vacuum in a sealed glass bulb

Bunsens Battery
BUNSENs CELL A carbon-zinc electric cell invented by Robert Bunsen in 1841

Using Carbon Paper
A stenographer uses Polycarb carbon paper

Sun / Carbon Burning / Kirch
The sun conceived as a mass of burning carbon. Date: 1635

Vodka Manufacture / Russia
Vodka manufacture in Russia Mixing apparatus to obtain the spirit before it is filtered through carbon and sand

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