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36 itemsArnold and Mabel Beckman photo album
- Circa 1915
- Circa 1935
Photographs of images from an album containing pictures of chemist Arnold O. Beckman and his wife, and Mabel Meinzer Beckman, taken during their courtship and the early years of their marriage. Images include Arnold O.…
- Subject World War (1914-1918), Beckman, Arnold O.
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Republic Flow Meters Company exhibit
- Circa 1920 – circa 1924
This image is from the Beckman Historical Collection, although the relationship between Republic Flow Meters Company and Beckman Instruments is unclear.
- Subject Flow meters
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Arnold O. Beckman in a clown costume at a college fraternity party
- Circa 1920
Arnold O. Beckman at a Delta Upsilon party during his time at the University of Illinois, 1918-1923.
Dr. Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004) invented the first commercially successful electric pH meter in 1934 and thus began…
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3 itemsFormula for silvering film
- 1931-Aug-25
The handwritten document was created in connection with Arnold O. Beckman's consulting work for Lee de Forest.
- Creator Of Work Beckman, Arnold O.
- Subject Silver films (Metal coating), Silvering, Celluloid
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18 itemsEarly Beckman facilities, Pasadena and South Pasadena
- Undated
- 1934 – 1935
- 1940
- 1946
- 1949
- 1950
A Pasadena garage was the first home of the National Postal Meter Company, founded by Arnold Beckman in 1934. The company soon became National Technical Laboratories, with a focus on pH meters. In 1935, the company…
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Postcard - Prémunition des Nouveau-Nés Contre La Tuberculose Enregistrée en France de 1924 à 1935
- Immunization of Newborn Babies Against Tuberculosis Registered in France, 1924-1935
- Circa 1935
Postcard depicts bar graph documenting the increase in the number of tuberculosis vaccinations administered to newborn babies.
- Publisher Institut Pasteur (Paris, France)
- Subject Tuberculosis, Vaccination, Institut Pasteur (Paris, France)
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4 itemsNational Technical Laboratories staff
- 1938-Dec
- 1939-Dec
- 1940
The series of photographs depicts employees of National Technical Laboratories.
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Cuban postage stamp commemorating Pierre and Marie Curie's discovery of radium
- 1938
Stamp printed by the Republic of Cuba, depicting Marie and Pierre Curie. The 40th anniversary of the discovery of radium by Marie and Pierre Curie was commemorated in France in 1938 with the release of a semipostal…
- Artist La Nézière, Joseph de
- Engraver Piel, Jules
- Subject Women in science, Curie, Marie, 1867-1934, Women physicists, Cuba, Women in physics, Women scientists, Chemists, International Union against Cancer, Women chemists, Curie, Pierre, 1859-1906, Science on postage stamps, Nobel Prize winners, Women in chemistry, Physicists, Postage stamps, Commemorative postage stamps, Women Nobel Prize winners
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Belgian postage stamp commemorating Trappist monks at Orval
- Circa 1939
Depicts two Trappist monks from Orval Abbey, presumably brewing Trappist beer.
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2 itemsPauling Oxygen Analyzer
- 1940s
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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Interior of Beckman Model IR-1 Spectrophotometer
- 1940s
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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Interior of Beckman IR-1 Spectrophotometer
- 1940s
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-12 Spectrophotometer
- 1940s
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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Demonstration of a Beckman Model B Spectrophotometer
- 1940s
An unidentified man with a tattoo on his forearm has removed the case of a Model B DU Spectrophotometer in order to demonstrate its functions to three other (also unidentified) men.
The first Beckman Instruments DU…
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23 itemsNational Technical Laboratories company picnics
- 1940s
- 1946
- 1949
The bordered photograph featuring Coca-Cola bottles and ice buckets is dated 1949. The bordered photographs of children are dated 1946. The exact date of the photographs without white borders is unknown.
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National Technical Laboratories: Mission Street building, South Pasadena
- 1940s
This building at 820 Mission Street was the first built exclusively for National Technical Laboratories in 1940.
- Subject Buildings, Beckman Instruments, inc.
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11 itemsArnold O. Beckman with employees
- Circa 1940 – circa 1979
Though the photo set is identified as Beckman with "employees," some of the photographs depict ceremonies and visits to non-corporate locations, like CalTech. Some photographs are attributed, dated (1941, 1962, 1967),…
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Dumbell part of Pauling Oxygen Meter
- 1940s
This glass dumbbell was key to the functioning of the Pauling Oxygen Meter, although production was tricky and originally required a human glass blower to shape the hollow ends of the tiny dumbbell with puffs of breath.…
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Announcing An Important New Beckman Development
- 1941-Sep-25
This advertisement, reprinted from the American Chemical Society News Edition, may be the earliest advertisement for the DU model. The page is stamped Apr 25 1961 (though the date is crossed out) and the reprint note is…
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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 IR-1 Spectrophotometer with glass lid
- Circa 1942
The IR-1 Spectrophotometer was developed by Beckman Instruments, Inc. in 1942 as a secret project for the United States' Office of Rubber Reserve for use in creating artificial rubber during World War II. The IR-1 was…
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Staff at National Technical Laboratories Christmas party
- 1942-Dec-24
- Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, inc.
- Subject Employees, Beckman Instruments, inc.
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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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3 itemsNational Technical Laboratories Christmas Party
- 1942-Dec-24
A company Christmas party for which NTL staff were encouraged to compete in some kind of model building contest.
- Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, inc.
- Subject Employees, Beckman, Arnold O., Christmas, Portraits, Group, Beckman Instruments, inc.