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Water treatment through the ages
Author(s) -
Symons George E.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2006.tb07609.x
Subject(s) - the renaissance , water treatment , filter (signal processing) , filtration (mathematics) , government (linguistics) , spanish civil war , history , art , ancient history , engineering , archaeology , art history , environmental engineering , philosophy , linguistics , statistics , electrical engineering , mathematics
This article summarizes the history of water purification including: Egyptian, Greek, and Roman efforts at water purification; the dark ages and Renaissance times; the first water filter patent invented in 1745 by Frenchman Joseph Amy; the first modern water filter plant invented in 1804 by John Gibb in Scotland; invention of the slow sand filter in the 1820s in London by James Simpson; the first American efforts at filtration in post‐Civil War years; the installation of slow sand, and then rapid sand filters in the U.S.; the advent of the era of safe water with the use of chlorine; and, 20th century consumer and government demands.