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pH
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This mailer, sent to Beckman shareholders, was a reprint from a company publication and explained the significance of the pH meter.
Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at the request of a chemist from…
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[Joseph Louis] Gay-Lussac
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A half-length portrait of French scientist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (1778–1850).
- Artist Delpech-François, Séraphin 1778-1825
- Contributor Belliard, Zéphirin, 1798-1861
- Subject Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis, 1778-1850
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Women working on the Beckman Digital Multimeter production line
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Multimeters are instruments capable of making multiple measurements, typically voltage, current, and resistance.
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Woman using a Beckman Model KF-3 Aquameter
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Used for performing titrations with a Karl Fischer reagent.
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Woman using a Beckman Model AB-6-2 Auto Bridge
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The woman in this photograph is unidentified.
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Woman using a Beckman Model AB-4-5 Sorting Bridge
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The woman in this photograph is unidentified.
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Woman using a Beckman Model AB-4-5 Sorting Bridge
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The woman in this photograph is unidentified.
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Woman using Beckman liquid chromatograph
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The specific instruments in this system (including the one she is holding) are unidentified.
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Woman on a photography set with Beckman Model R Dynograph Recorders
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An unidentified woman poses with Dynograph Recorders arranged against a backdrop for a photo shoot. The edges of the backdrop and some photography equipment are visible.
Beckman Instruments began producing dynographs…
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Woman adjusting a Beckman DU Spectrophotometer
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The instrument is here shown attached to its power supply on a laboratory bench. The people in this image are unidentified.
The first Beckman Instruments DU Spectrophotometer was developed in 1940, when the company was…
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William Ballhaus and unidentified man with award
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Dr. William F. Ballhaus, Sr. (1918-2013) was a Stanford- and Caltech-educated aeronautical engineer who assumed the presidency of Beckman Instruments in 1965. During his tenure, Ballhaus oversaw the company's shift away…
- Subject Ballhaus, William F., 1918-, Awards
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Wilbur I. Kaye
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Wilbur Kaye was hired by Beckman Instruments in 1956 as the Director of Research, Scientific Instruments Division. While there, he modified the Beckman DU Spectrophotometer design, producing the DK Spectrophotometer…
- Photographer Frey Photos
- Subject Scientists--Portraits, Chemists
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Wherever there's water, there's pH...
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Advertisement about using various models of Beckman pH meters for monitoring water quality in industrial settings.
Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at the request of a chemist from the California…
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Weston Galvanometer
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Rectangular wooden box; brown leather handle attached to top with metal fasteners; front has a steel lock screwed to it; lock is stamped with manufacturer; four hard black rubber feet on bottom; top attached with two…
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Wallace and Joseph Coulter, seated
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Wallace H. Coulter (1913-1998) enumerated the Coulter Principle for counting and sizing particles suspended in a fluid. He patented the Coulter Counter for blood cell analysis in 1953.
Joseph R. Coulter, Jr.…
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Verteilungsgesetz
- Distribution Law
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Distribution law or Nernst's distribution law gives a generalization governing the distribution of a solute between two nonmiscible solvents. This law was first given by Walther Nernst (1864-1941) who studied the…
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Versuchsanordnung für demonstration in der vorlesung: Oxydation des Luftstickstoffs im Hochspannungslichtenbogen nach System Pauling
- Experimental Arrangement for Demontration in the Lecture: Oxidation of Atmospheric Nitrogen in the High-Voltage Arc According to the Pauling System
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Diagram of an experimental arrangement for demonstration in the lecture: oxidation of atmospheric nitrogen in the high-voltage arc according to the Pauling system.
- Creator Of Work Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
- Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Chemistry, Pauling, Linus, 1901-1994, Nobel Prize winners
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Vermögensverzeichnis
- List of assets
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List of assets (Vermögensverzeichnis).
- Subject Assets (Accounting)
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Variable Resistor
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Variable resistors are also known as potentiometers. Potentiometers are used to measure electromotive force (emf) by balancing it with a known emf. The concept was first developed in 1841 by J. C. Poggendorff and…
- Manufacturer Leeds and Northrup Company
- Subject Variable Resistor, Potentiometer, Leeds and Northrup Company
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Variable Capacitor
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Tall rectangular wooden base with black plastic instrument panel; instrument panel is attached to base via four metal screws, two on each side; two small black plastic knobs that adjust up and down as they are turned…
- Manufacturer Leeds and Northrup Company
- Subject Variable capacitors, Leeds and Northrup Company
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Union Carbide's First Chemical Operation, Clendenin, West Virginia
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Landscape painting with architecture. A high eye-level view of a river valley from a hilltop, showing a small cluster of industrial buildings concentrated in the lower right. Post-Impressionistic style. Pencil marks…
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Unidentified woman using a Beckman/Spinco amino acid analyzer
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A technician stands before an amino acid analyzer. A light-colored backdrop hangs behind the instrument; the shelving and lighting fixtures of the rest of the room can be seen in the top portion of the photograph.
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Unidentified woman using a Beckman amino acid analyzer
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First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer allowed users to quickly perform amino acid chromatography. This unidentified model is likely part of the same product line.