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5 itemsNational Technical Laboratories, South Pasadena, California
- Undated
- 1943
- 1948
This building at 820 Mission Street was the first built exclusively for National Technical Laboratories in 1940.
One photograph bears a photographer's stamp for J. Allen Hawkins on the back, but the other images in…
- Photographer Hawkins, J. Allen
- Subject Factories, Employees, Portraits, Group, Beckman Instruments, inc.
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7 itemsBeckman Facilities, Fullerton Plant
- Undated
- 1943
- 1953
- 1955
In 1954, Beckman Instruments' headquarters moved from Pasadena to Fullerton, California.
Some photos are undated, but the ones with dates were taken between 1943 and 1953. Several have a photographer's stamp on the…
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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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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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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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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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Beckman Hydrogen Flame Analyzer
- 1943
Used for gas chromatography, this hydrogen flame ionization detector was fist produced in the early 1940s.
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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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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 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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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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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.…