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Beckman Model AB-7-1 26 Station Sorter
- 1950 – 1969
- Photographer Commercial Photographic Company
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Beckman Model AB-6-2 Auto Bridge
- 1950 – 1969
- Photographer Commercial Photographic Company
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Beckman Model AB-3X-4 Auto Bridge
- 1950 – 1965
Industrial Instruments was a manufacturer of solution conductivity analyzers and other industrial instruments. Beckman Instruments acquired the Cedar Grove, New Jersey-based company in 1965.
- Photographer Commercial Photographic Company
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Beckman Model LART Lightning Arrester Test Set
- 1950 – 1969
This system tests electric surge arresters, which protect transformers from power surges, like those caused by a lightning strike.
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Beckman Model AB-4 Auto Bridge
- 1950 – 1969
- Photographer Commercial Photographic Company
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Beckman Model NV-1, Type DP-3 Decade Potentiometer
- 1950 – 1969
Potentiometers regulate the flow of electricity, like the volume dial on a radio. In 1940, Arnold O. Beckman was unsatisfied with dials on the market, so he designed his own helical potentiometers, or helipots, for use…
- Photographer Commercial Photographic Company
- Subject Potentiometer, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Portrait of Vannevar Bush
- 1955
Lithograph portrait of Vannevar Bush, by the artist Eugene A. Montgomery. Bush is shown in a 3/4 view holding a graduated cylinder and beaker, with a pipe clenched in one corner of his mouth. This portrait was created…
- Artist Montgomery, Eugene A., 1905-2001
- Publisher The Atlantic Monthly
- Subject Chemistry, Chemists, Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974
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Double flask for demonstrating anaerobic fermentation
- 1939 – 1967 (Date span attributed to photograph)
Photograph of a double flask used by French biologist, microbiologist, and chemist Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) to demonstrate anaerobic fermentation, as displayed at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Per notations…
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Letter from Donald B. Johnstone to Chester G. Fisher
- 1955-Jan-19
Letter from Donald B. Johnstone (1919-2018) to Chester G. Fisher (1881-1965) regarding enclosed stamps commemorating Louis Pasteur (1822-1895). Donald B. Johnstone was the Associate Professor of Microbiology at the…
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Beckman Model 762 Oxygen Analyzer
- 1954 – 1969
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,…
- Photographer Hesketh, Dean D.
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Oxygen--Measurement, Oxygen--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Stop Arthritis Telethon
- 1956
Dr. Arnold O. Beckman, founder of Beckman Instruments, is second from left in the front row.
- Subject Beckman, Arnold O., Arthritis, Telethons
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Beckman Model G Glass Electrode pH Meter
- 1950
Self contained pH meter with wooden exterior; hinged top door opens to reveal meter face and inlaid paper instructions for use; the dial is calibrated from pH 0 to pH 13 in .1 pH divisions; porcelain enamel lined…
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Helipot Division – Miscellaneous products
- 1950s
The Helipot Corporation was founded during World War II by Arnold O. Beckman of Beckman Instruments (at that time still National Technical Laboratories) to keep up with the demand for Beckman's reliable dial, also…
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Beckman Model 80 Oxygen Analyzer
- 1959
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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Portrait of John Van Nostrand Dorr (1872-1962)
- 1950s
Portrait of John Van Nostrand Dorr (1872-1962). In partnership with John Lundberg and A.D. Wilson, Van Nostrand Dorr owned the Lundberg, Dorr, & Wilson gold & silver mining operation in Terry, South Dakota. In 1916, he…
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Portrait of Henry Bohn Haas (1902-1987)
- 1950s – circa
Portrait of Henry Bohn Haas (1902-1987), a specialist in organic chemistry who is credited with the discovery of gas chromatography. Haas was born in Huntington, Ohio and received his doctorate from Ohio State in 1925.…
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Portrait of Howard Farkas (d. 1978)
- Circa 1958
Portrait of Howard Farkas (d. 1978). Farkas graduated from New York University in 1915 and was senior vice president and secretary of the U.S. Stoneware Co. He served as President of the Chemists' Club of New York from…
- Photographer Bachrach, Fabian
- Subject Farkas, Howard, d. 1978, Chemists, Portraits, Chemists' Club (New York, N.Y.)
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Letter from Robert S. Mulliken to Harrison Shull, 1959
- 1959-Nov-10
Letter between Robert S. Mulliken and Harrison Shull, American quantum chemists, concerning travel plans for a group of theoretical chemists.
- Addressee Shull, Harrison
- Author Mulliken, Robert Sanderson
- Subject Shull, Harrison, Biochemists, Robert A. Welch Foundation, Hirschfelder, Joseph O., 1911-1990, Platt, John Rader, 1918-, Mulliken, Robert Sanderson, Chemists, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Biophysicists, Matsen, F.A. (Frederick Albert), 1914-, Physicists, Nobel Prize winners
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Letter from Harrison Shull to Robert S. Mulliken, 1959
- 1959-Nov-09
Letter between Harrison Shull and Robert S. Mulliken, American quantum chemists, concerning travel plans.