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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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Beckman Instruments advertisement photoshoot
- 1963
This image was created for use in an advertisement.
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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…
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Handi-Wrap Lunch Box Go-Together sale display
- 1964
Promotional display advertising a Lunch Box Go-Together sale featuring Dow Handi-Wrap. Several boxes of Handi-Wrap form the base of the display, which is topped with a lunch box and stack of assorted foodstuffs wrapped…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Marketing, Dow Chemical Company, Consumer goods, Advertising, Food--Packaging, Plastics in packaging
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Handi-Wrap Lunchbox Go-Togethers sale display
- 1964
Promotional display advertising a Lunchbox Go-Together sale featuring Dow Handi-Wrap. The display consists of a series of cards, arranged in a circular pattern, showcasing an assortment of foodstuffs available at a…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Plastics, Marketing, Dow Chemical Company, Consumer goods, Advertising, Food--Packaging, Plastics in packaging
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Aerial view of Dow Chemical Company Research Center
- 1964
Aerial view of the Dow Chemical Company Research Center located in Midland, Michigan. Various buildings are numbered and identified as follows on the back of the photograph:
1) Library, Patent and Research…
- Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
- Subject Research institutes, Aerial views, Dow Chemical Company, Aerial photographs
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Beckman D-2 Oxygen Meter in use in a hospital nursery
- Circa 1960
Los Angeles County General Hospital nurse Mary Finlay is monitoring the oxygen levels of a prematurely born infant in an incubator, to provide just the right oxygen mixture. Too little oxygen has obvious repercussions,…
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Naval Air Engineering Center at Mustin Field
- Circa 1962
Aerial view of the Naval Air Engineering Center located at Mustin Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, showing the assorted laboratory and manufacturing facilities.
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Plastics Laboratory at the Naval Air Engineering Center
- 1963-Mar-28
Color photograph showing two technicians removing a plastic dome from an unidentified machine in the Plastics Laboratory at the Naval Air Engineering Center.
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Aeronautical Materials Laboratory staff
- 1961-Jun-02
Group photograph of Aeronautical Materials Laboratory staff members (from left) J. Hartley Bowen, Jr. (Technical Director); Martin J. Devine; and E. Robert Lamson. Assorted machinery, as well as a sign for the…
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Nuclear Chemistry Laboratory at the Naval Air Engineering Center
- 1964
Three chemists in the Nuclear Chemistry Laboratory at the Naval Air Engineering Center in Johnsville, Pennsylvania. The individuals in the photograph are identified as follows (from left): Alfred Glass (Chemist); Dr.…
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Award presentation in honor of George B. Cook
- Circa 1963
Award presentation in honor of George B. Cook, the first chemist to join the Naval Aircraft factory in 1922. The individuals in the photograph are identified as follows (from left): Jack Smith (Laboratory Supervisor);…
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Why crystal gaze... you can start closing loops now with a Beckman 112 Data Processing System
- 1960s
Beckman Instruments' analog computers were developed by their Berkeley Division as early as 1953. The company produced analog computers -- also called automation, data reduction, or data handling systems -- for the…
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What's new at the flue?
- 1963
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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Clearing the air of mystery for APC...
- 1960
Beckman Instruments became interested in measuring, controlling, and fighting air pollution in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when company president Arnold O. Beckman became the scientific adviser to the Los Angeles…
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Instrumental in your future
- 1961
Beckman Instruments' analog computers were being produced by their Berkeley Division as early as 1953. The company produced analog computers -- also called automation, data reduction, or data handling systems -- for the…
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Sargent Molecular Model Kit
- 1955 – 1965
White cardboard box with blue writing; contains black, blue, yellow, red, and green spheres as well as wooden and metal connectors.
Models kits, such as this one, are often found in laboratories and classrooms and are…
- Manufacturer E.H. Sargent and Company
- Subject Molecules--Models
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Letter from Vincent du Vigneaud to Frank Stodola
- 1961-Dec-21
Concerns a position opening for Resident Research Associates for Post-doctorates.
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Letter from Arthur Kornberg to Frank Stodola
- 1961-Jan-06
Concerns a position opening for Resident Research Associates for Post-doctorates at Stodola's laboratory.
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Arnold O. Beckman with a 200 Channel Automatic Recorder
- Circa 1960
This recorder could take electronic signals coming from many different gauges, convert the signals into digital format, and then record all the data on a separate, connected device (a Flexiwriter). The large control…
- Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, Inc.
- Photographer Rothschild Photo
- Subject Beckman, Arnold O., Scientific apparatus and instruments, Beckman Instruments, Inc.