Bacterial Filter
date: label: date made
content: after 1884
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 to remove bacteria from water. The inscriptions on this example read “F. Filtre Chamberland Systeme Pasteur. H. B. & Cie / Choisy-le-Roi" and "Controle."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Choisy-le-Roi
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Warshaw Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.293320.3190
label: accession number
content: 293320
label: catalog number
content: 293320.3190
objectType: label: Object Name
content: filter, bacterial
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24.8 cm x 3.4 cm; 9 3/4 in x 1 11/32 in