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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

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500 BC
Hippocratus used a cloth to filter water with impurities

Image from the University of Wisconsin-Madison

1600s
Invention of the microscope. Created new need to remove bacteria and other microscopic particles from water

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Image from Nikon

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1953
Rosalind Franklin’s x-ray diffraction experiment

Image from Rosalind Franklin

1953
Watson and Crick discover DNA

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Image from Science Photo Library

1973
Boyer and Cohen create the first recombinant DNA (rDNA)/performed the first genetic engineering

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Image from Genentech

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