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Beckman Instruments, Inc. became interested in measuring, controlling, and fighting air pollution…

Beckman Instruments began producing dynographs in 1961.

Beckman Instruments began producing dynographs in 1961.

Electrophoresis uses an electric field to separate particles in a medium (like a gel) based on their size, charge, or a binding affinity.

Houston, Texas-based Infotronics introduced the CRS-100 in 1967.

First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer used the Spackman-Stein-Moore technique of amino acid chromatography.

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…

Beckman Instruments, Inc. 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…

Beckman Instruments, Inc. 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…

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,…

Beckman Instruments, Inc. 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…

This instrument detects pollutants in the emissions from vehicles with combustion engines.

Beckman Instruments, Inc. became interested in measuring, controlling, and fighting air pollution in the late 1940s and early…

This instrument detects pollutants in the emissions from vehicles with combustion engines.

Beckman Instruments, Inc. became interested in measuring, controlling, and fighting air pollution in the late 1940s and early…

A woman wearing a lab coat displays a Hepatitis B antigen and associated products.

Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at the request of a chemist from the California citrus industry, who needed an accurate way to measure the acidity of his product. The resulting instrument kicked off…