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Checking off cylinder after being drawn full length
- After 1895
View of a worker checking off a cylinder of glass at an unidentified factory. This photograph is one of a set of seven stereographs detailing the production of glass sheets.
- Publisher Underwood & Underwood
- Subject Employees, Glass blowing and working, Manufacturing industries, Glass manufacture
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Adding molten glass to neck of carboy to make rim
- After 1895
View of a worker adding molten glass to the neck of a carboy, a type of vessel used for the transportation and fermentation of liquids, at a Glass Works factory in New Jersey. This photograph is one of a set of six…
- Publisher Underwood & Underwood
- Subject Employees, Glass blowing and working, Manufacturing industries, Glass manufacture
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Finishing neck or "corkage" of a 12-gallon carboy
- After 1895
View of two workers finishing the neck or "corkage" of a 12-gallon glass carboy, a type of vessel used for the transportation and fermentation of liquids, at a Glass Works factory in New Jersey. This photograph is one…
- Publisher Underwood & Underwood
- Subject Employees, Glass blowing and working, Manufacturing industries, Glass manufacture
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Row of drawing kilns on which cylinders are blown by compressed air
- After 1895
View of a row of drawing kilns used to process molten glass into continuous sheets of flat glass at an unidentified factory. This photograph is one of a set of seven stereographs detailing the production of glass sheets.
- Publisher Underwood & Underwood
- Subject Glass blowing and working, Manufacturing industries, Glass manufacture
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Cutting a carboy from blow-pipe after leaving mould
- After 1895
View of two workers separating a carboy, a type of vessel used for the transportation and fermentation of liquids, from the blow-pipe at a Glass Works factory in New Jersey. This photograph is one of a set of six…
- Publisher Underwood & Underwood
- Subject Employees, Glass blowing and working, Manufacturing industries, Glass manufacture
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Blowing a 12-gallon carboy into a clay mould
- After 1895
View of a worker using a clay mold to blow and shape a carboy, a type of vessel used for the transportation and fermentation of liquids, at a Glass Works factory in New Jersey. This photograph is one of a set of six…
- Publisher Underwood & Underwood
- Subject Employees, Glass blowing and working, Manufacturing industries, Glass manufacture
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Making and fitting ground-glass stopper to a big carboy
- After 1895
View of a worker making and fitting a ground-glass stopper to a large carboy, a type of vessel used for the transportation and fermentation of liquids, at a Glass Works factory in New Jersey. This photograph is one of a…
- Publisher Underwood & Underwood
- Subject Employees, Glass blowing and working, Manufacturing industries, Glass manufacture
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Blowing a carboy and shaping its base by rolling
- After 1895
View of several workers blowing and shaping carboys, a type of vessel used for the transportation and fermentation of liquids, at a Glass Works factory in New Jersey. This photograph is one of a set of six stereographs…
- Publisher Underwood & Underwood
- Subject Employees, Glass blowing and working, Manufacturing industries, Glass manufacture
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Mouse with a Helipot Model 7246 multi-turn potentiometer
- 1964-Dec
This photograph is part of a series of marketing images used to demonstrate the small size of Helipot products, in this case a potentiometer.
Potentiometers regulate the flow of electricity, like the volume dial on a…
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Beckman IR-5 Spectrophotometer
- Circa 1957
The IR-5 was a double-beam spectrophotometer first produced in 1957.
The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold O. Beckman in 1942, asking for an…
- Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, Inc.
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Spectrophotometer, Infrared spectroscopy, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Beckman HC/CO Tester in use measuring automobile exhaust
- 1970s
A man in a lab coat and a woman with a clipboard record the readings of an HC/CO Tester attached to the tailpipe of an automobile. This instrument measures the levels of hydrocarbons (HCs) and carbon monoxide (CO)…
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Here's the new Beckman Pocket pH Meter
- 1956
Color advertisement for the Pocket pH Meter, which was first sold in 1956. The main selling point of this model was its portability, meaning that pH readings could be taken in the field or on site, instead of requiring…
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What's in your smog?
- 1962
The advertisement mentions several Beckman Instruments products that could be used in corporations' fight against pollution, including IR spectrophotometers and gas chromatographs.
Beckman Instruments, Inc. was an…
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Now! Make soil pH measurements in the field
- 1957
Advertisement featuring an image of a man kneeling in a field looking at the reading on a Beckman Pocket pH Meter. This model of pH meter was first marketed by Beckman Instruments in 1956, and as this advertisement…
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A Dial to reckon with
- 1956
Advertisement for the DIGIDIAL, made by the Helipot Division of Beckman Instruments, Inc.
Potentiometers regulate the flow of electricity, like the volume dial on a radio. In 1940, Arnold O. Beckman was unsatisfied…
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Letter from Arnold O. Beckman to potential Beckman@Science conference attendees
- 1999-Sep-24
This letter from Arnold O. Beckman invites potential attendees (and potential donors) to a conference on the future of science education in Orange County, California. This initiative to improve science education was…
- Creator Of Work Beckman, Arnold O.
- Subject Science--Study and teaching, California--Orange County, Humanitarianism, Public schools, Education
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Portrait of Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004)
- 1959
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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Beckman IR-7 spectrophotometer in a laboratory
- Circa 1958
The IR-7 was first produced by Beckman Intruments, Inc. in 1958, building on more than a decade of development of infrared spectrophotometers. The IR-7 continued the line of double-beam instruments, begun by the IR-4…
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Man in a field of crops using a Beckman Pocket pH Meter
- Circa 1956
An unidentified man kneels in a field of crops looking at the reading on a Pocket pH Meter, first marketed by Beckman Instruments in 1956. A photograph from the same session appears in advertisements for the Pocket pH…
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Robert T. Sheen, W. G. Brombacher, and Arnold O. Beckman with a Ratio Recording Spectrophotometer
- 1955-Sep-15
Arnold O. Beckman (R), founder of Beckman Instruments, Inc., stands with Robert T. Sheen (L) and W. G. Brombacker beside a Ratio Recording Spectrophotometer at a meeting of the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation…
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Beckman IR-1 spectrophotometer with glass lid
- Circa 1942
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-1 Spectrophotometer without case
- Undated
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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Soap Perfume Base Department
- 1950s
Interior view of the Soap Perfume Base Department at the Norda Company plant in Boonton, New Jersey.
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Production Compounding
- 1950s
View of production compounding of perfume bases at the Norda Company plant in Boonton, New Jersey.
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Compounding a Base
- 1950s
View of a chemist compounding a base from abyssinian civet, otto of rose from Bulgaria, and absolutes floral oil from Italy, France, and Palestine at the Norda Company plant in Boonton, New Jersey.
