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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…

  • Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, Inc. Spinco Division, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Amino acids--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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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…

  • Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, Inc. Spinco Division, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Amino acids--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  Close-up of dials on a Spinco Model 121 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…

  • Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, Inc. Spinco Division, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Amino acids--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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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).

  • Subject Viscosity--Measurement, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Beckman Instruments, Inc., Viscosity
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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…

  • Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, Inc. Spinco Division, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Amino acids--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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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…

  • Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Infrared spectroscopy, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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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…

  • Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, Inc. Spinco Division, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Amino acids--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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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…

  • Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, Inc. Spinco Division, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Amino acids--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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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…

  • Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, Inc. Spinco Division, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Amino acids--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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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.

  • Subject Atomic absorption spectroscopy, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Spectrophotometer, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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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.

  • Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, Inc. Spinco Division, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Amino acids--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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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.

  • Photographer Illig, Russell
  • Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, Inc. Spinco Division, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Amino acids--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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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…

  • Photographer Illig, Russell
  • Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, Inc. Spinco Division, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Amino acids--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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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.

  • Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, Inc. Spinco Division, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Amino acids--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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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…

  • Subject Women in science, Medical laboratory technology, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Blood cell count--Equipment and supplies, Women in medicine, Flow cytometry
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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…

  • Subject Women in science, Medical laboratory technology, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Blood cell count--Equipment and supplies, Flow cytometry, Women employees
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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.

  • Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, United States. Air Force, Oxygen, Life support systems (Space environment), Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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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…

  • Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Colorimetry--Instruments, Electronics in space medicine, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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  Photographs, Portraits

  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.…

  • Subject Chemical engineering, Haas, Henry Bohn, 1902-1987, Chemists, Chemistry, Organic, Portraits, Gas chromatography
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  Certificate Honoring Glenn Seaborg

  • 1968

  Presented for distinguished achievements, and notable service to the University of California.

  • Contributor Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Nuclear Science Division
  • Creator Of Work University of California, Berkeley
  • Subject Seaborg, Glenn T. (Glenn Theodore), 1912-1999, University of California, Berkeley, Nobel Prize winners
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  Certificate Appointing Glenn Seaborg as a Member of the Atomic Energy Commission

  • 1968-Jun-29

  Appointment conferred by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

  • Contributor Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Nuclear Science Division
  • Creator Of Work United States. Bureau of Engraving and Printing
  • Subject Seaborg, Glenn T. (Glenn Theodore), 1912-1999, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994, Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973, Nobel Prize winners
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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,…

  • Subject Scientists--Portraits, Beckman, Arnold O., Hydrogen-ion concentration--Measurement--Instruments, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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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…

  • Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Glucose--Analysis, Blood sugar--Analysis, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Beckman Instruments, Inc.