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Beckman IR-9 Spectrophotometer
- 1960
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 IR-8 Spectrophotometer
- 1960
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 IR-7 Spectrophotometer
- 1960
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 DU Ultraviolet Spectrophotometer
- 1960
The first Beckman Instruments DU Spectrophotometer was developed in 1940, when the company was still called National Technical Laboratories. Spurred by employee Howard Cary (who had previously been involved in pH meter…
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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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Beckman Model DB Spectrophotometer
- 1960
The Beckman DB was a double beam model, which allowed for comparison between two light paths: a reference and the sample being measured.
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Arnold O. Beckman with Jayce Vidler
- 1960
Jayce Vidler (Mrs. Richard Vidler) won a contest among Beckman Instruments employees to create a new slogan for the company's 25th anniversary. Her winning entry was "Instrumental in Your Future."
- Photographer Frey Photos
- Subject Slogans, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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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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Walt Donner and Jim Cook with Gas Chromatograph
- 1960
Walt Donner worked in Advanced Technology Operations at Beckman Instruments and on projects for the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA). Jim Cook was presumably a Beckman Instruments employee who…
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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 the 200th birthday of Johan Gadolin
- 1960-Jun-04
Cachet and stamp depict Johan Gadolin, who discovered the element yttrium and is considered the "founder of Finnish chemistry." The stamp commemorates the bicentennial of Gadolin's birth and features his likeness based…
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Arnold O. Beckman displaying expansion plans for Spinco Division Plant
- 1960-Aug-19
From left to right: F. Clifford Jr. (Spinco Division manger), Arnold O. Beckman, Frederick Terman (provost and vice president of Stanford University), and Rear Admiral John Ball (mayor of Palo Alto) look at plans for…
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Beckman Model 72 pH Meter with buffer solution
- Circa 1960
The Model 72 was a line operated version of the Model 76 Expanded Scale pH Meter, designed for routine use.
Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at the request of a chemist from the California citrus…
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Beckman Model DB-G Spectrophotometer
- 1960s
Produced in the 1960s, the DB-G was a single-beam grating (as opposed to a prism) ultraviolet spectrophotometer.
The first Beckman Instruments DU Spectrophotometer was developed in 1940, when the company was still…
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Unidentified man using a Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer
- Circa 1960
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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Portrait of Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004)
- 1960
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.
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Portrait of Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004)
- 1960
Dr. Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004) is pictured here with his Model G pH meter, which he invented in 1934 and which became the first commercially successful electric pH meter. Thus began a long career manufacturing…
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Beckman D-2 Oxygen Meter in use in a hospital nursery
- Circa 1960
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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Why crystal gaze... you can start closing loops now with a Beckman 112 Data Processing System
- 1960s
Beckman Instruments' analog computers were developed by their Berkeley Division as early as 1953. The company produced analog computers -- also called automation, data reduction, or data handling systems -- for the…
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Clearing the air of mystery for APC...
- 1960
Beckman Instruments became interested in measuring, controlling, and fighting air pollution in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when company president Arnold O. Beckman became the scientific adviser to the Los Angeles…
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Sargent Molecular Model Kit
- 1955 – 1965
White cardboard box with blue writing; contains black, blue, yellow, red, and green spheres as well as wooden and metal connectors.
Models kits, such as this one, are often found in laboratories and classrooms and are…
- Manufacturer E.H. Sargent and Company
- Subject Molecules--Models
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Arnold O. Beckman with a 200 Channel Automatic Recorder
- Circa 1960
This recorder could take electronic signals coming from many different gauges, convert the signals into digital format, and then record all the data on a separate, connected device (a Flexiwriter). The large control…
- Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, Inc.
- Photographer Rothschild Photo
- Subject Beckman, Arnold O., Scientific apparatus and instruments, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Beckman Model 210 Systems Analyzer
- Circa 1960
This transistorized data processor was made for Aerojet Corporation in the early 1960s. It was produced by Beckman Instruments' Systems Division, which made (among other things) aerospace industry instruments like these…
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Kodak Brownie Holiday Flash Camera
- 1954 – 1962
Kodak brand Brownie Holiday Flash camera; Dakon plastic lens with rotary shutter; molded brown and tan Bakelite body; three metal sockets on right side of the camera body meant for mounting flash bulb; braided cord…
- Manufacturer Eastman Kodak Company
- Subject Eastman Kodak Company, Plastics, Cameras, Photography, Bakelite
