Chemicals Collection

Icis Imperial Image
ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries) helps Britannia rule the waves in the great days when the word imperial is one to be proud of !

An advertisement for Johnson Matthey & Co. Ltd. Silver nitrate manufacturers

Chemistry Lesson
A male teacher leans over a group of schoolboys as he explains something to them during a Chemistry lesson at Nuffield Junior School, London. Date: 1960s

Victoria College, Alexandria - Chemistry Laboratory
Part of the Chemistry Laboratory at the Victoria College, Alexandria, Egypt

Montem Street Higher Elementary School, London - Chemistry
The London School Boards Montem Street Higher Elementary School - boys in a laboratory are surrounded by bottles of chemicals and other chemistry apparatus. Date: early 1900s

Charles Tennants St. Rollox Chemical Works
St. Rollox Chemical Works in Glasgow, making dry bleaching powder which was sold world wide and grew to be the worlds largest chemical Works

Farbwerke vorm. Meister Lucius & Bruning AG a Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company at Hochst - a city district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Advert, John Poynter, Son & Macdonalds, Glasgow
Advert for John Poynter, Son & Macdonalds, Chemicals etc, Glasgow, Scotland. 1905

Advert, James Ross & Company, Falkirk and Linlithgow
Advert for James Ross & Company, Chemical and Oil Works, Linlithgow and Falkirk, Scotland. 1905

Processing photographs
A man processing photographic images within a small workshop/workroom. He is surrounded by all the equipment he requires to create prints. Date: 1880

A Photographic Positive 1853
A mother seeks assistance in regards to her daughter accidentally spilling photographic chemicals, in particular staining her face from nitrate of silver

French female munitions worker making powder primers 1916
A photograph of a female munitions worker, as she makes the primers and other associated percussion cap parts for shells, in a French munitions factory

WW1 - German-taught Turkish Chemists preparing Poisonous Gases - 12th June 1915. Date: 1915

WW1 - Austrian Scientists at work in Adana, Turkey
A pair of Austrian Scientists working in secrecy in Adana, Turkey during the First Work War. Note the portrait of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

GLC-LFB Chemical Incident Unit (CIU)
The mid 1970s saw a number of innovative appliance designs come into play as the London Fire Brigade adapted to an ever changing and more Health and Safety conscious working environment

Saltpetre Mining
Saltpetre mining in Chile

Cartoon, The bad cloud, WW1
Cartoon, The bad cloud, showing a cloud of gas billowing across the battlefield, just as the French soldiers are preparing to charge

Blackwell Mill Cottages, Millers Dale, Peak District
A very rare photograph of Blackwell Mill Cottages with the railway line with a goods train in view. One of the trucks identifies its owner as Brunner Mond, the forerunner of I.C.I. chemicals

Wooden wedges are used to fix a leakage - an old pipe-line carrying chemicals. desert near Kumdag -Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April

An old rusty pipe-line - carrying extracted iodine chemicals - in a desert near Kumdag. Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April

Women workers manufacturing synthetic phenol, WW1
Women munition workers testing the temperature of phenol as it runs into drums during the production of explosives. Date: 1918

Fire at supply depot, Limmer Wharf, Barking, Essex
Panoramic view of a fire which broke out at a Ministry of Supply depot, Limmer Wharf, Barking, Essex, on 27 October 1947. Seen here is the fire in its early stages

Firefighters in action, Mitcham, Surrey, WW2
Firefighters in action following a flying bomb incident in Western Road, Mitcham, Surrey, where drums of amyl acetate were involved

Balloon being filled with gas
Balloon in a yard, being filled with gas from a barrel in preparation for flight. Date: late 18th century

Discodermid sponge
Discodermia lives a sessile life on the seabed around North America and the Caribbean

Phosphate Mine
Workers pushing railway wagons full of phosphate at a mine in Sfax, Tunisia, North Africa. Date: 1930s

Chemical Worker 1950S
A worker wearing a protective suit in a chemical factory. Date: 1950s

Soda Crystallising
Washing soda is an essential household product : in the crystallising house it is converted into convenient crystal form

Underground Harvesting
Crops will be cultivated underground under ideal conditions, using chemicals to enable accelerated growth and so greatly enhance production

Phosphate Mining
Sacks of phosphate, the salt of phosphoric acid, mined in Sfax, Tunisia, North Africa

Camera Accessories / 1884
A selection of low-cost accessories, including filters, chemicals, zinc & porcelain bowls, funnels and paper

Hand-Drawn Engine / 1878
A hand-drawn chemical fire engine employed for fire extinction about 1878. The chemicals were held in copper cylinders mounted at the front of the vehicle

HANCKWITZ ? -1756
AMBROSE GODFREY HANCKWITZ An apothecary from Hamburg who came to England to assist Robert Boyle and manufacture chemicals, including the first phosphorous

Reading Invisible Ink
Invisible ink may be detected by chemicals or heat

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