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Workshop in an unidentified Beckman Instruments plant
- 1950s
Women assembling unidentified instruments at Beckman Instruments or one of its divisions.
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Berkeley Model 5602-20 Nuclear Scaler
- 1950s
General view of an unidentified woman, presumably a model, holding up component parts of a nuclear scaler produced by the Berkeley Division of Beckman Instruments. A scaler is an electronic instrument used to count…
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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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German postage stamp commemorating Fritz Haber
- After 1950 – before 1995
Stamp depicts profile of Fritz Haber who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for developing a process to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen gas, which allowed for the large-scale synthesis of…
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Clyde Moe operating RCA Model EMU electron microscope in Dow Chemical Company laboratory
- 1950s
General view of Clyde Moe operating a RCA Model EMU electron microscope in the Dow Chemical Company's Metallurgical Laboratory. Electron microscopes use a beam of accelerated electrons as a source of illumination and…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Photographer Korling, Torkel
- Subject Employees, Laboratories, Microscopy, Microscopes, Dow Chemical Company, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Radio Corporation of America, Moe, Clyde
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Beckman Model D Oxygen Meter in use with an infant's incubator
- 1950s
Los Angeles County General Hospital nurse Mary Finlay is monitoring the oxygen levels of a prematurely born infant in an incubator, to provide just the right oxygen mixture. Too little oxygen has obvious repercussions,…
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Beckman D2 Oxygen Meter in use with an infant's incubator
- 1950s
This nurse is monitoring the oxygen levels of a prematurely born infant in an incubator, to provide just the right oxygen mixture. Too little oxygen has obvious repercussions, but until the 1950s doctors did not realize…
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Building 537, Hangar and Laboratory facilities
- Circa 1950
Exterior view of building 537 at the Naval Air Material Center's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory, housing an aircraft hangar and laboratory facilities.
- Creator Of Work Naval Air Material Center, United States. Navy
- Subject Aerospace Research Laboratories (U.S.), Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.)
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Autoclave at the Aeronautical Materials Laboratory
- 1950s – circa
General view of an autoclave, used for the fabrication of plastics, at the Naval Air Engineering Center's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory. In the foreground, Laboratory Technical Director J. Hartley Bowen, Jr.…
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Portrait of Benjamin Talbot Brooks (b. 1885)
- Circa 1950
Portrait of Benjamin Talbot Brooks (b. 1885). Brooks was an authority on petroleum and author of several volumes on the subject, including The Chemistry of Petroleum Hydrocarbons (1954-55).
- Photographer Bachrach, Fabian
- Subject Brooks, Benjamin Talbot, 1885-, Chemists, Petroleum, Portraits
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Portrait of Arthur Vining Davis (1867-1962)
- Circa 1950
Portrait of Arthur Vining Davis (1867-1962), American industrialist and philanthropist best known for his work with the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa).
Born in Sharon, Massachusetts, Arthur Vining Davis attended…
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Portrait of Williams Haynes (1886-1960)
- Circa 1950
Portrait of Williams Haynes (1886-1960). Williams Haynes was born on July 29, 1886 in Detroit, Michigan. After graduating from high school, Haynes worked as a reporter for the New York Sun before enrolling at Johns…
- Subject Journalists, Haynes, Williams, 1886-1960, Portraits
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Portrait of Edgar Clay Britton (1891-1962)
- 1950s
Portrait of Edgar Clay Britton (1891-1962). Born in Rockville, Indiana in 1891, Britton studied chemistry at the University of Michigan under Dr. William J. Hale. He earned his Ph.D. from Michigan in 1918 and, while at…
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Gas chromatography is new! The Beckman Gas Chromatograph is newer!
- 1950s
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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Zenith Royal Hearing Aid
- 1950s
Gold colored plastic box with a black circular grate and gold steel clips on the front; on the left top corner is a black plastic tone dial and on the right top corner is the volume dial; on the right side is a black…
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Quartz crystal before being cut for use in Beckman DU Spectrophotometers
- 1950s
Although the first DU prototype used glass, all later models contained quartz prisms which functioned as chromators. They transmitted and separated the light generated by a hydrogen lamp into its absorption spectrum,…
- Photographer Connell, William
- Subject Spectrophotometer--Design and construction, Quartz crystals, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Arnold O. Beckman with EASE Computer
- 1950s
The man and woman in this photograph with the EASE (Electronic Analog and Simulation Equipment) computer are unidentified.
Beckman Instruments' analog computers were being produced by their Berkeley Division as early…
- Photographer Rothschild Photo
- Subject Electronic analog computers, Electronic data processing, Computers, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Woman cutting quartz crystal for use in Beckman DU Spectrophotometer
- 1950s
Although the first DU prototype used glass, all later models contained quartz prisms which functioned as chromators. They transmitted and separated the light generated by a hydrogen lamp into its absorption spectrum,…
- Photographer Connell, William
- Subject Spectrophotometer--Design and construction, Quartz crystals, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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William Shockley and Arnold O. Beckman
- 1950s
In 1955, Arnold O. Beckman and William Shockley entered business together when they established Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories as a subsidiary of Beckman Instruments, Inc. with the goal of mass producing…
- Photographer Romaine-Skelton
- Subject Scientists--Portraits, Beckman, Arnold O., Shockley, William, 1910-1989
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Portrait of Dr. C. Scott Althouse
- 1950s
Portrait of Dr. C. Scott Althouse (1880-1970), founder of the Althouse Chemical Company. A graduate of the Philadelphia Textile Institute (1900), Dr. Althouse worked with his father dyeing textiles before founding the…
- Contributor Feeman, James
- Subject Althouse, C. Scott, 1880-1970, Dye industry, Dyes and dyeing, Althouse Chemical Company, Industrialists
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Memo from Arnold O. Beckman to NTL staff
- 1950-Aug-01
This internal National Technical Laboratories memo expresses Dr. Beckman's concern that NTL is losing its place in the infrared spectrophotometer field, with a special focus on competitors Baird and Perkin-Elmer. The…
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Beckman Model R pH meter
- 1942 – 1959
The Model R Industrial pH Meter was first produced in 1942, although this photograph was likely taken much later.
Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at the request of a chemist from the California…
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Beckman Model D Oxygen Analyzer
- 1950s
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,…
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Woman injecting a sample into a Beckman Model E Centrifuge sample chamber
- 1950s
Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after their January 1, 1955 acquisition of industry leader, Specialized Instruments Corporation, or Spinco. With Spinco came the famous Model E Ultracentrifuge, which was…
