Human interactions with microbes include both practical and symbolic uses of microbes, and negative interactions in the form of human, domestic animal, and crop diseases.
Grapes being trodden to extract the juice and fermented to wine in storage jars. Tomb of Nakht, 18th dynasty, Thebes, Ancient Egypt
Calendar from a Medieval book of hours: the month of December, showing a baker putting bread into the oven. c. 1490–1500
An early Penicillin bioreactor, from 1957, now in the Science Museum, London
Scientists working with Class III cabinets at the U.S. Biological Warfare Laboratories, Camp Detrick, Maryland, in the 1940s
John Raymond Postgate FRS was an English microbiologist and writer, latterly Professor Emeritus of Microbiology at the University of Sussex. Postgate's research in microbiology investigated nitrogen f
Human interactions with microbes
…see him through a microscope. Microbes and Man is an admired "classic" book, first published in 1969, by the "father figure of British microbiology" John Postgate on the whole subject of microorganisms and their relationships with humans. Microbes feature in many highly dramatized films. Hollywood was quick to…
Postgate in his laboratory