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John Stenhouse FRS FRSE FIC FCS (21 October 1809 – 31 December 1880) was a British chemist. In 1854, he invented one of the first practical respirators . He was a co-founder of the Chemical Society in 1841.
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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 ]
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]
27 August – John West, pioneer of food canning (died 1888 in the United States) 8 September – Robert Reid Kalley, physician and Presbyterian missionary to the lusophone countries (died 1888) 21 October – John Stenhouse, chemist (died 1880 in London) 24 October – John Barr, poet (died 1889 in New Zealand)
Stenhouse arrived at the 1962 All-Star Game with a 10-4 record, and faced such sluggers as Roberto Clemente, Willie Mays and Orlando Cepeda, throwing his trademark knuckle-curve. Dave Stenhouse ...
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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.