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John Stenhouse's respirator. John Stenhouse was born in Barrhead in Glasgow on 21 October 1809. He was the eldest son of William Stenhouse, a calico-printer in the family firm of John Stenhouse & Co of 302 High Street, [2] Glasgow, and Elizabeth Currie; [3] he was the only one of their children to survive beyond infancy.
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Eric Holmes (born 1821), British chemist. John Stenhouse (born 1809), Scottish chemist. References This page was last ... Contact Wikipedia; Code of Conduct;
Inventors in Europe included John Stenhouse, a Scottish chemist, who investigated the power of charcoal in its various forms, to capture and hold large volumes of gas. He built one of the first respirators able to remove toxic gases from the air, paving the way for activated charcoal to become the most widely used filter for respirators. [ 8 ]
John Stenhouse (1809–1880), Scottish chemist; John Stenhouse Goldie-Taubman (1838–1898), Manx politician and Speaker of the House of Keys; Joseph Stenhouse (1887–1941), Scottish-born Antarctic navigator; Lawrence Stenhouse (1926–1982), British educational theorist; Mike Stenhouse (born 1958), American baseball player; son of Dave Stenhouse
In 1840, the Scottish chemist John Stenhouse found that the same chemical could be produced by distilling a wide variety of crop materials, including corn, oats, bran, and sawdust, with aqueous sulfuric acid; he also determined furfural's empirical formula (C 5 H 4 O 2). [8]
Mills graduated BSc in 1863 and gained a doctorate (DSc) in 1865. From 1861 he worked under Prof John Stenhouse, with colleagues also including William A. Tilden. [1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London on 4 June 1874. [2] He moved to Glasgow around 1876 as Professor of Chemistry.
Edward Divers FRS (27 November 1837 – 8 April 1912) was a British experimental chemist who rose to prominence despite being visually impaired from young age. Between 1873 and 1899, Divers lived and worked in Japan and significantly contributed to the science and education of that country.