Line drawing depicting the Michels' mercury-sealed 1500 atm. gas compressor

Made:
1977-01-14
maker:
Imperial Chemical Industries plc

Not to scale. Compressor used by ICI (Alkali) Ltd. 'in the pilot plant at Northwich, Cheshire to produce the world's first ton of polyethylene in Manning's 9 litre reaction vessel 1937-1938'. (With a smaller similarly coloured copy)

Details

Extent:
565
760
Identifier:
MSL/0432
Access:
Open Access