Antibiotic
material · 1928 · Electric age
Fleming’s penicillin and the drugs that followed.
Principles and materials it uses
- Germ theory of disease — uses. Fighting bacteria.
- Petri dish — uses. Fleming noticed mould in a Petri dish.
- Fermentation — uses. Penicillin is produced by fermentation.
What it is a kind of
- Penicillin — includes. An antibiotic.
- Streptomycin — includes. An antibiotic.
Things built in a similar way
- Sulfonamides — works like. The first mass-market antibacterial drugs were synthetic sulfonamides; penicillin was discovered earlier (1928) but went into production later.