Chamberland Filter, B
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900
name: label: maker
content: Hautin, Boulenger and Company
notes: label: Description
content: In 1884, Charles Chamberland, an assistant to Louis Pasteur, in Paris, designed a filter that could remove bacteria from water. The inscription on this example reads "B. Filtre Chamberland Systeme Pasteur. H. B. & Cie Choisy-le-Roi / Bte S. G. D. G.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Choisy-le-Roi
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Michigan Medical School. Department of Microbiology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.253100.32.1
label: accession number
content: 253100
label: catalog number
content: 253100.32.1
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bacterial filter
label: Object Name
content: filter, bacterial
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic, porcelain (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: metal piece: 14 in x 2 1/8 in; 35.56 cm x 5.3975 cm
label: Measurements
content: porcelain piece: 9 3/4 in x 1 1/2 in; 24.765 cm x 3.81 cm