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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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First Day Cover commemorating Claude-Louis Berthollet
- 1958
Cachet and stamp depict Claude-Louis Berthollet. Cachet includes text describing Berthollet's contributions to water purification.
- Creator Of Work P.A.C.
- Engraver Combet, Jacques
- Subject Water--Purification, Postage stamps, France, Chemists, Postmarks, Commemorative postage stamps, Science on postage stamps, Cachets (Philately), First day covers (Philately), Berthollet, Claude-Louis, 1748-1822
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American postage stamps commemorating the centennial of the silver rush (Comstock Lode)
- Circa 1959
Depicts three 19th-century silver miners.
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First Day Cover commemorating the 1958 World's Fair in Belgium
- 1958
Stamp printed in Belgium shows the Atomium and exposition emblem of the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.
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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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First Day Cover commemorating Svante Arrhenius
- 1959
Cachet and stamp depict the Swedish chemist and physicist Svante Arrhenius.
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Peruvian postage stamp commemorating the centenary of the birth of Daniel Alcides Carrión García
- 1958
Peruvian postage stamp commemorating the centenary of the birth of Daniel Alcides Carrión García (1857-1885), a Peruvian medical student after whom Carrion's disease is named. The stamp depicts Saint Martin de Porres…
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Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip of the United Kingdom at the Beckman Instruments plant in Glenrothes, Scotland
- 1959
The man shaking hands with Queen Elizabeth may be Arnold O. Beckman, founder of Beckman Instruments. The man to the right of the image is unidentified.
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Portrait of Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004)
- 1958
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,…
- Photographer Raeburn, Jean
- Subject Scientists--Portraits, Beckman, Arnold O.
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Portrait of Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004)
- 1958
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,…
- Photographer Raeburn, Jean
- Subject Scientists--Portraits, Beckman, Arnold O.
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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 Model D Oxygen Meter in use with an infant's incubator
- Circa 1959
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…
- Photographer Kassler Studios
- Subject Hospitals, Oxygen--Measurement, Newborn infants--Medical care, Infants, Women in medicine, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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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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Electrical Evaluation, Polymeric Materials
- 1958
View of two technicians using assorted apparatus to evaluate the electrical resistivity of high polymers at the Naval Air Material Center's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory. At the laboratory, assorted equipment was…
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Establishment of constant humidity condition for the evaluation of experimental humidity indicators
- 1958
View of a technician at the Naval Air Material Center's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory using an unidentified apparatus to create a constant humidity condition in order to evaluate experimental humidity indicators. At…
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Endurance testing of aircraft hydraulic pump
- 1958
General view of machinery used to conduct endurance tests of high-temperature (400 degrees Fahrenheit), high-pressure (3000psi) aircraft hydraulic pump at the Naval Air Material Center's Aeronautical Materials…
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General view of the Plastics Testing area
- 1958
General view of the Plastics Testing area at the Naval Air Material Center's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory. Technicians are seen working with assorted equipment used to simulate various service conditions and test…
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RCA Model EMU electron microscope in the Aeronautical Materials Laboratory
- 1958
General view of a RCA Model EMU electron microscope used in the Naval Air Material Center's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory. Electron microscopes use a beam of accelerated electrons as a source of illumination and…
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Spectrographic analysis
- 1958
General view of assorted equipment and apparatus used to conduct spectographic analysis at the Naval Air Material Center's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory.
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Testing electrical resistivity of high polymers at the Naval Air Material Center
- 1958
View of two technicians using assorted apparatus to determine the electrical resistivity of high polymers at the Naval Air Material Center's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory. At the laboratory, assorted equipment was…
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Ultra-Violet and Visible Spectrum Spectrophotometer
- Circa 1958
General view of the Ultraviolet and Visible Spectrum (UV/Vis) Spectrophotometer used in the Naval Air Material Center's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory. UV/Vis spectroscopy is routinely used in analytical chemistry…
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Evaluation of experimental hydraulic fluids in simulated aircraft system
- 1958
General view of the simulated aircraft system at the Naval Air Material Center's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory used to evaluate experimental hydraulic fluids. A worker is seen seated in the foreground examining…
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Engineer operating shot peening equipment
- Circa 1958
General view of an engineer operating shot peening equipment at the Naval Air Material Center's Aeronautical Materials Laboratory. Shot peening is a cold work process used to finish metal parts to prevent fatigue and…
