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Oxygen cylinder, 1922-1959
Empty oxygen cylinder made for the 1922 Everest Expedition.
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Made for the 1922 British Mount Everest Expedition. The expedition attained an altitude of 22,000 feet, and was the first to take oxygen. Captain John Noel was the expedition film maker, and later wrote about taking photographs from high on the mountain as ’an enormous exertion only made possible by breathing oxygen all the time I was doing it’.
- Measurements:
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overall: 685 mm 100 mm, 3.54 kg
- Materials:
- metal (unknown)
- Object Number:
- 1959-338/1
- type:
- oxygen cylinders and gas cylinders
- Image ©
- The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
