Line drawing depicting the Michels' mercury-sealed 1500 atm. gas compressor
- Made:
- 1977-01-14
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)
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- Identifier:
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