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Beckman Model AB-6-2 Auto Bridge
- 1950 – 1969
- Photographer Commercial Photographic Company
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Beckman Model LART Lightning Arrester Test Set
- 1950 – 1969
This system tests electric surge arresters, which protect transformers from power surges, like those caused by a lightning strike.
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Beckman Model AB-4 Auto Bridge
- 1950 – 1969
- Photographer Commercial Photographic Company
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Beckman Model NV-1, Type DP-3 Decade Potentiometer
- 1950 – 1969
Potentiometers regulate the flow of electricity, like the volume dial on a radio. In 1940, Arnold O. Beckman was unsatisfied with dials on the market, so he designed his own helical potentiometers, or helipots, for use…
- Photographer Commercial Photographic Company
- Subject Potentiometer, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Beckman Model 260 Reaction Kinetics System
- 1968
The Spinco Division's Model 260 Reaction Kinetics System measured the Precise rate constants of molecular reactions.
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A female technician applies a sample to a Beckman Amino Acid Analyzer
- 1960s
First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer allowed users to quickly perform amino acid chromatography. This unidentified model is likely a contemporary of the 120.
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Beckman Low-Shear Viscometer
- 1960 – 1979
Viscometers measure viscosity, the resistance of fluids to flow or stress (this could also be thought of as a liquid's thickness).
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Beckman Model 120C Amino Acid Analyzer
- 1960s
First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer used the Spackman-Stein-Moore technique of amino acid chromatography. The 120C was marketed as a "classic" instrument, referred to often in…
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Beckman Model 116 Amino Acid Analyzer
- 1960s
First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer allowed users to quickly perform amino acid chromatography. The Model 116 was a more modular instrument, marketed to customers with lighter…
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Beckman Viscometer
- 1960 – 1979
Viscometers measure viscosity, the resistance of fluids to flow or stress (this could also be thought of as a liquid's thickness).
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Beckman Model 120C Amino Acid Analyzer
- 1960s
First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer used the Spackman-Stein-Moore technique of amino acid chromatography. The 120C was marketed as a "classic" instrument, referred to often in…
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Beckman Model 762 Oxygen Analyzer
- 1954 – 1969
Developed from a Linus Pauling design during WWII, the technology behind Beckman Instruments’ oxygen analyzers ended up doing such diverse jobs as monitoring astronauts’ respiration, maintaining packaged food safety,…
- Photographer Hesketh, Dean D.
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Oxygen--Measurement, Oxygen--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Beckman Model IR-315 Infrared Analyzer and Amplifier
- 1960s
The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold O. Beckman in 1942, asking for an infrared spectrophotometer that they could use to create rubber. Under this…
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Spinco Model 120B Amino Acid Analyzer
- 1960s
First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer used the Spackman-Stein-Moore technique of amino acid chromatography.
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Spinco Model 120C Amino Acid Analyzer
- 1960s
First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer used the Spackman-Stein-Moore technique of amino acid chromatography.
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Spinco Model 116 Amino Acid Analyzer
- 1960s
First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer allowed users to quickly perform amino acid chromatography. The Model 116 was a more modular instrument, marketed to customers with lighter…
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Spinco Model 119 Amino Acid Analyzer
- 1960s
First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer allowed users to quickly perform amino acid chromatography. This is a related, contemporary model.
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Two women using a Model F Coulter Counter
- 1960s
Based on the Coulter principle, the Coulter Counter quantifies and sizes particles suspended in a fluid, like blood cells, bacteria, and a wide variety of other substances. The instrument works by drawing liquid…
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Beckman O2 System for Manned Orbiting Laboratory
- Circa 1968
This oxygen partial pressure monitoring system was built in 1968 for the United States Air Force by Beckman Instruments' Advanced Technology Operations, for use in the MOL's life support system.
