History of Water Filtration
&
Genetic Engineering
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The Full Story
Two crucial aspects of our project include water filtration technology and genetic engineering technology. Scroll to see the history of both fields.
2000 BC
Water filtration first invented by boiling water
500 BC
Hippocratus used a cloth to filter water with impurities
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1600s
Invention of the microscope. Created new need to remove bacteria and other microscopic particles from water
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1953
Rosalind Franklin’s x-ray diffraction experiment
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1953
Watson and Crick discover DNA
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1973
Boyer and Cohen create the first recombinant DNA (rDNA)/performed the first genetic engineering
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