Filter Collection

WW2 - Home Front - Woman in her Gas Mask. Date: circa 1941

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

Poster, Muratti's Ariston cigarettes, As smoked by Royalty and the Nobility Date: circa 1950

File cutting equipment and various filters. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature

Advert for Berkefeld Filter, germ proof water 1910
Germ proof filtered water supply. Date: 1910

Advert for Berkefeld Filter, clean water 1912
If your eyes could see the impurities in your present drinking water, you would not hesitate a moment to install a Berkefeld filter Date: 1912

Advert for Du Maurier cigarettes 1951
Advertisement for du Maurier cigarettes, the cigarette with the exclusive filter (whatever that is). Clearly, the elegant woman who is procuring a light from an unseen admirer seems to think they re

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

Coeloptychium agaricoides, fossil sponge
This hexactinellid (six rayed spiculed) sponge originates from the Cretaceous of Westphalia, Germany. It has a maximum diameter 8 cm. Sponges are filter feeders and live on plankton

Advert for Berkefeld Filter, clean water 1901
Water absolutely free from disease germs by using Berkefeld Filter. Can be easily and cheaply fitted to the service pipe of any house having ordinary pressure. 1901

Advert for Matinee filter tipped cigarettes 1939
These Matinee filter tipped Virginia cigarettes in there slim black case. Date: 1939

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

Water coolers, spirit barrels, etc, Plate 41
Water coolers, spirit barrels, syphons, seltzogenes, refrigerative and syphon filters, Plate 41, in a range of styles. Date: circa 1880s

Water filters. Amphoras. Empuries. Spain
Roman Art. Emporiare (Ampurias). Amphoras. Water filters. Girona province. Spain

Roman city of Ampurias. Water filters. Girona province. Catalonia. Spain

Three children with jug, Balham, SW London
Three little children with a water jug from a pub, on a street in Balham, SW London. Date: circa 1961

Advert for Matinee filter cigarettes 1938
These Matinee filter tipped Virginia cigarettes in there slim black case. 1938

R. A. F. Night Flying Simulation by G. H. Davis
A diagram explaining the science behind the various methods used by the R.A.F. to simulate night flying by day during the second world war, when enemy activity was common during the night

Filter Room at Headquarters Fighter Command

Supermarine Spitfire fitted with a tropical filter on an airfield in North Africa. March 1944. Date: 1944

Supermarine Seafire IB BL687
Supermarine Seafire IB, BL687, with a tropical filter, the second Seafire conversion

Advertisement for Du Maurier cigarettes, filtered for flavour -- the cigarette with the exclusive filter. Showing an elegant woman in black and white, with an open packet of cigarettes in colour

Filtering drinking water - Cairo, Egypt. An egyptian man has collected water from the River Nile in his animal skin container and now transfers this water to a large terracotta pot

Two sleeveless evening dresses by Doeuillet
Two fashionable sleeveless evening dresses by Doeuillet. On the left, a v-necked green dress with gold speckles. On the right, a black crepe dress with embroidered scoop neck

British Water-filter cart
A British water-filter cart being filled from a river. Ensuring troops remained free of disease was a pressing concern during World War I, and preventative measures against water-borne bacteria

C17 Sand Glass
The SAND GLASS, also known as CLEPSAMMIA, measures time by how long sand takes to filter from the upper bulb into the lower; different apertures measure different periods

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