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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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Beckman Model 121 Amino Acid Analyzer and a lab coat draped over an empty chair
- 1969 – 1978
First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer used the Spackman-Stein-Moore technique of amino acid chromatography. The Model 121, which debuted in the late 1960s, does the same process, but…
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Beckman Model 121-C Amino Acid Analyzer
- 1969 – 1978
First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer used the Spackman-Stein-Moore technique of amino acid chromatography. The Model 121, which debuted in the late 1960s, does the same process, but…
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Beckman/Spinco Model 121-M Amino Acid Analyzer
- 1969 – 1978
First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer used the Spackman-Stein-Moore technique of amino acid chromatography. The Model 121, which debuted in the late 1960s, does the same process, but…
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Beckman Model 444 Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
- Circa 1969
Beckman's Model 444 Integral Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer offered a choice of single-beam or double-beam operation, digital readout, and a flame emission mode.
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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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Woman using a Model F Coulter Counter cell counter
- 1969
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 NASA Spaceborne Colorimeter
- Circa 1969
This instrument was created in 1968 by Beckman Instruments' Advanced Technology Operations (ATO) specifically for measuring the effect of space flight on calcium and creatinine levels in astronauts' urine. Colorimeters…
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Gordon Research Conference on Scientific Information Problems in Research, 1969
- 1969-Jul-14 – 1969-Jul-18
Group photograph of attendees at the Gordon Research Conference on Scientific Information Problems in Research held at Colby Junior College in New London, New Hampshire in July 1969.
- Creator Of Work Gordon Research Conferences
- Subject Gordon Research Conferences, Portraits, Group, Congresses and conventions
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Portrait of Henry Bohn Haas (1902-1987)
- 1960s – circa
Portrait of Henry Bohn Haas (1902-1987), a specialist in organic chemistry who is credited with the discovery of gas chromatography. Haas was born in Huntington, Ohio and received his doctorate from Ohio State in 1925.…
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Portrait of Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004) holding a pH meter
- 1960s
Dr. Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004) invented the first commercially successful electric pH meter in 1934 and thus began a long career manufacturing scientific and medical instruments with National Technical Laboratories,…
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Beckman Glucose Analyzer
- Circa 1969
The Glucose Analyzer was developed by James Sternberg in 1969 and was one of several very successful medical testing and analysis instruments that Beckman Instruments produced in the 1970s. Its size, speed, and price…
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Beckman Model 915-B Organic Carbon Analyzer display
- 1968 – 1973
Two unidentified men examining a Beckman Instruments display at a trade show.
The Model 915 converted samples to carbon dioxide and used a non-dispersive infrared analyzer to determine the total carbon and inorganic…
- Photographer Foto Arts, inc.
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Trade shows, Carbon--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Unidentified man using a Beckman GC-2 Gas Chromatograph
- 1960s
Beckman Instruments entered the gas chromatograph business in 1956 with the acquisition of the successful Watts Manufacturing Company. Later that year, Beckman Instruments produced its first gas chromatograph, the GC-1,…
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Beckman Model 930 Air Comparison Pycnometer
- 1960s
Pycnometers are used for making density/volume measurements of solids using gas displacement. The Model 930 was marketed as early as 1961.
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Beckman Model GC2 Gas Chromatograph
- 1960s
Beckman Instruments entered the gas chromatograph business in 1956 with the acquisition of the successful Watts Manufacturing Company. Later that year, Beckman Instruments produced its first gas chromatograph, the GC-1,…
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Hamilton Standard Oxygen Sensor Backpack
- 1969
This backpack may have been used on manned spaceflight missions likely includes an oxygen sensor or analyzer built by Beckman Instruments.
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Helipot trimmers and resistors
- 1950 – 1969
Shown with a pen for scale. These were likely manufactured by the Helipot Division.
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Postage stamp commemorating the sugar industry of Trinidad and Tobago
- 1969
Stamp depicts a sugar refinery along with a profile of Queen Elizabeth II in gold.
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First Day Cover commemorating the XV Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale
- 1969
Cachet depicts a light beam passing through a prism to create a spectrum. Stamp depicts colors of the spectrum. The 15th Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale was held May 26-30, 1969 in Madrid, Spain.
