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Paramagnetic Oxygen Meter notes
- 1980
These handwritten notes (by an unidentified author) detail the process by which Linus Pauling came to National Technical Laboratories to produce his oxygen meter design and how this lead to the formation of Arnold O.…
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Beckman DU-7 Spectrophotometer in use
- Circa 1984
The DU 7 featured a microprocessor and a built in video graphic display.
The first Beckman Instruments DU Spectrophotometer was developed in 1940, when the company was still called National Technical Laboratories.…
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William Ballhaus and Arnold O. Beckman
- 1980
William F. Ballhaus Sr. replaced Arnold O. Beckman as the president of Beckman Instruments, Inc. in 1965. Ballhaus shifted the company's focus from defense and scientific instruments to medical instruments.
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Woman using a Beckman Microlab 252MX Computing Infrared Spectrophotometer
- Circa 1980
This computing spectrophotometer was controlled by a microprocessor and included a video graphics display.
The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold…
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Woman using a Beckman ASTRA 8 Automated Stat Routine Analyzer
- Circa 1978
The Astra 8 analyzer used multiple channels to perform continuous flow and discrete analyses of electrolytes and "routine chemistries." It was controlled by a microprocessor with 52K bytes of memory.
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James C. Sternberg
- 1980s
Dr. James C. Sternberg (1927-2001) was the Vice President of Advanced Research at Beckman Instruments and responsible for the development of the Glucose Analyzer in the 1970. In 1968 he published a landmark paper on a…
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Beckman pH meter in a glass case
- 1980s
A Polaroid photograph of what seems to be a Model G pH meter in a clear glass case as part of an exhibit or display.
Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at the request of a chemist from the California…
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Just Captured: The World of Ultracentrifugation With the SpinPro Expert System
- 1980s
The SpinPro Expert system software designed ultracentrifuge procedures based on users' answers to a series of questions, intentionally mirroring the telephone conversations that users used to have with Beckman…
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The next industrial revolution
- 1981
This advertisement depicts Beckman Instruments as an active participant in building humanity's future through high-tech scientific instruments. Spectrophotometers, pH meters, nuclear counters, HPLC (high performance…
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Spectrophotometery hasn't been this simple since we invented it.
- 1984
This advertisement for the new DU-50 Series Spectrophotometers uses Beckman Instruments' history as an innovator and dependable source of spectrophotometers to market their new product. This new line offers programmable…
- Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, Inc.
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Spectrophotometer, Spectrophotometry, 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)…