A Brief History of Clean-rooms


A Brief History of Clean-rooms

The first cleanroom identified by historian’s dates back to the mid-19th century, where sterilised environments were being used in hospital operating rooms, although not clean by today’s standards they were none-the less clean for their time. Modern cleanrooms were created during World War 2 where they were created to produce and manufacture state of the art weaponry in a clean and sterile environment.

During the war, US and UK industrial manufacturers designed a colossal amount of hardware such as tanks, air planes, and guns, this contributed to the success of the war by providing the military with weaponry that was needed at each juncture of the war.



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It is known that the HEPA filters were being used throughout cleanrooms by the early 1950s. Some believe that cleanrooms date back to World War I when there was a need to segregate the work area to reduce cross-contamination between manufacturing areas; however no exact date can be found for the introduction of the first cleanroom.
Regardless of when they were introduced into the manufacturing world, contamination was one of the main problems and cleanrooms were the solution. 

Continually growing and constantly changing for the betterment of projects, research, and manufacturing, cleanrooms as we know them today are recognised for their low levels of pollutants and contaminants allowing for incredible scientific breakthroughs such as Nano Technology etc. 

Prior to the creation of modern cleanrooms, early cleanrooms had contamination due to particles and unpredictable airflow throughout the room.  With this in mind cleanrooms were created allowing for a constant, high-filtration airflow, which is what is used throughout cleanroom design and construction today.

APT Sound Testing can undertake all your cleanroom testing requirements to ISO 14644-1:2015 - Classification of air cleanliness by particle concentration and ISO 14644-2:2015 - Monitoring to provide evidence of cleanroom performance related to air cleanliness by particle concentration.

We provide a friendly professional cleanroom validation service to the requirements of all current ISO standards and guidelines. We will issue you with test certificates containing up-to-date calibration certificates for all of the equipment used as well as recommendations for improvements that could be made to make the clean room more efficient in regards to its operation.

For more information visit our website at www.aptsoundtesting.co.uk or call us on 01525 303905 to discuss your annual cleanroom validation testing, alternately please email info@aptsoundtesting.co.uk




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