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Unidentified man using a Beckman GC-2 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 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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Arnold and Mabel Beckman at an anniversary dinner
- 1962
Two of the men greeting Arnold and Mabel Beckman are identified as Russ Simpson and Robert Tily.
- Photographer Frey Photos
- Subject Beckman, Arnold O., Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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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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First Day Cover commemorating the Accra Assembly - The World Without the Bomb, Ghana
- 1962
Depicts logo of the Accra Assembly held in Ghana on June 21-28, 1962, together with three postage stamps of Ghana.
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First Day Cover commemorating the inauguration of the atomic reactor at National Tsing Hua University
- 1961
First Day Cover commemorating the inauguration of the atomic reactor at National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The stamp and envelope feature several illustrations of the reactor, which was completed on April…
- Artist Wen Hsueh-ju
- Printer Printing Bureau of the Ministry of Finance, Japan
- Subject Postage stamps, Nuclear facilities, Postmarks, Commemorative postage stamps, Nuclear energy, Power resources, Science on postage stamps, Nuclear energy--Research--Laboratories, Cachets (Philately), First day covers (Philately), China, Guo li qing hua da xue (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Taiwan
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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 1902 Nobel Prize winners
- 1962
Cachet and stamps depict Nobel Prize winners from 1902.
- Artist Wallhorn, Arne
- Subject Postage stamps, Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903, Authors, Ross, Ronald, Sir, 1857-1932, Postmarks, Lorentz, H. A. (Hendrik Antoon), 1853-1928, Zeeman, Pieter, 1865-1943, Science on postage stamps, Fischer, Emil, 1852-1919, Nobel Prize winners, Physicians, First day covers (Philately), Chemists, Sweden, Commemorative postage stamps, Cachets (Philately), Physicists
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First Day Cover commemorating 1901 Nobel Prize winners
- 1961-Oct-12
Cachet depicts Alfred Nobel, while stamps depict the 1901 Nobel Prize winners.
- Artist Wallhorn, Arne
- Subject Postage stamps, Röntgen, Wilhelm Conrad, 1845-1923, Hoff, J. H. van 't (Jacobus Henricus), 1852-1911, Chemists, Sweden, Postmarks, Commemorative postage stamps, Science on postage stamps, Sully Prudhomme, 1839-1907, Nobel Prize winners, Cachets (Philately), Physicists, Behring, Emil von, 1854-1917, First day covers (Philately)
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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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Cuban postage stamp promoting El Mundo Unido Contra La Malaria campaign
- Cuban postage stamp promoting The World United Against Malaria campaign
- 1962
Cuban postage stamp printed to promote world anti-malaria campaign. Depicts a chinchona plant and chemical formulas for chloroquine and primaquine, medications used to treat malaria.
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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…