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Beckman Hypoxia Warning Amplifier
- 1963
Beckman made hypoxia warning systems for aircraft pilots and astronauts.
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Beckman Model L2 Ultracentrifuge and its developers
- 1962
This research team from the Spinco Division of Beckman Instruments designed and developed the L2.
Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after their January 1, 1955 acquisition of industry leader, Specialized…
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Man adjusting a Beckman Model 320D Industrial Gas Chromatograph
- 1956 – 1969
Images show a man adjusting the front and underside of the instrument, in a work space containing other, unidentified instruments.
Beckman Instruments entered the gas chromatograph business in 1956 with the acquisition…
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A "mean" line!
- 1964
Advertisement for "rugged, dependable" line of Beckman IR spectrophotometers.
The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold O. Beckman in 1942, asking for…
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Beckman's Process Computer smashes bottlenecks
- 1963
This advertisement for the EASE Computer touts its ability to eliminate process bottlenecks and to test processes without running a full, trial operation. The big draw, according to the ad content, is how Beckman…
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Measure trace concentrations of total hydrocarbons...
- 1962
This advertisement for the Beckman Total Hydrocarbon Analyzer describes several uses for this instrument: purging missile fuel lines, studying air pollutants, monitoring process gas streams, and detecting impurities in…
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Baby's first breath had better be a good one...
- 1960
This advertisement hits all the Beckman Instruments highlights, like oxygen analyzers, air pollution control, and pH meters. These instruments and their related industries and developments will make the lives of…
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Know-how by Dow...chromatography by Beckman
- 1960
Advertisement for Beckman Instruments gas chromatographs being used at the Dow Chemical plant in Bay City, Michigan.
Beckman Instruments entered the gas chromatograph business in 1956 with the acquisition of the…
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Vass iss vrong mitt $30,000,000.00???
- 1960
This advertisement ran in Playboy in 1960 (among other publications), with the goal of recruiting new employees. It builds on the fame of Beckman's pH meter line of instruments via humorous German-accented English that…
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Read pH to 0.003...
- 1961
Advertisement showing a woman using a Beckman Model 76 Expanded Scale pH Meter.
Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at the request of a chemist from the California citrus industry, who needed an accurate…
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Helipot Zippo lighter
- 1960s
One of several specialty items produced for the Helipot Division of Beckman Instruments, Inc. in the 1960s. Bears the words "have faith" and "keep smiling" around an illustration of a man with an apple on his head and…
- Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, Inc.
- Subject Zippo Manufacturing Company, Beckman Instruments, Inc., Cigar lighters
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Helipot pen
- 1960s
One of several specialty items produced for the Helipot Division of Beckman Instruments, Inc. in the 1960s. Bears the words "have faith" and "keep smiling" around an illustration of a man with an apple on his head and…
- Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, Inc.
- Subject Ball-point pens, Parker Pen Company, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Helipot tankard
- 1960s
One of several specialty items produced for the Helipot Division of Beckman Instruments, Inc. in the 1960s. Bears the words "have faith" and "keep smiling" around an illustration of a man with an apple on his head and…
- Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, Inc.
- Subject Tankards, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Helipot golf balls
- 1960s
One of several specialty items produced for the Helipot Division of Beckman Instruments, Inc. in the 1960s. Bears the words "have faith" and "keep smiling" around an illustration of a man with an apple on his head and…
- Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, Inc.
- Subject Golf balls, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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pH essential to quality
- 1961
This advertisement for Beckman Instruments' pH equipment shows how central pH instruments were to the Beckman brand in 1961. By this time, the line of pH products included meters, electrodes, and accessories.
Arnold…
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Accurate, readable, repeatable blood pH
- 1962
Advertisement for the Beckman Blood pH System, including the Model 76 Expanded Scale pH Meter, Thermomatic Constant Temperature Block, and Micro Blood pH Assembly.
Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at…
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You can count on 4-layer diodes
- 1960
Advertisement for the Shockley 4-layer diode, including a diagram.
In 1955, Arnold O. Beckman and William Shockley entered business together when they established Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories as a subsidiary of…
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The Shockley 4-layer bistable transistor diode
- 1960
Advertisement for the Shockley 4-layer diode and its demonstration at the 1960 Western Electronic Show and Convention (WesCon).
In 1955, Arnold O. Beckman and William Shockley entered business together when they…
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The Analog Computer that pumped blood
- 1963
This advertisement for the EASE Analog Computer promotes a use case where the computer was able to simulate the circulatory system (not to actually control blood flow in a living subject).
Beckman Instruments' analog…
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This Analog Computer gets all your answers -- faster, more accurately, and automatically!
- 1963
Advertisement for EASE 2100 Analog Computer.
Beckman Instruments' analog computers were being produced by their Berkeley Division as early as 1953. The company produced analog computers -- also called automation, data…
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The oil drum that breathes
- 1963
Beckman Instruments's involvement in NASA's early manned spaceflight projects was mentioned in many of their 1960s advertisements, including this one for the IR-15A Spectrophotometer. In this advertisement, the…
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Starting to gather smog data?
- 1964
This advertisement for Beckman Instruments targets people who are monitoring their companies' emissions, encouraging them to get a better understanding of their "problems." It positions air pollution as something to be…
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The man on the moon wears a western hat
- 1961
This advertisement appeals to potential Beckman Instruments employees by building on the popularity of NASA's early manned spaceflight programs. In 1961 -- the year of this advertisement -- NASA conducted its first…
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Join the battle against air pollution!
- 1960s
This advertisement from Beckman Instruments highlights the many instruments and systems that could be used to monitor and control air pollution. This includes a "mobile monitor" which was an RV fitted out with various…
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Mouse with a Helipot Model 7246 multi-turn potentiometer
- 1964-Dec
This photograph is part of a series of marketing images used to demonstrate the small size of Helipot products, in this case a potentiometer.
Potentiometers regulate the flow of electricity, like the volume dial on a…