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Model 520 Process Gas Chromatograph with door open
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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,…
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Nurse monitoring two infants in incubators
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The nurse and infants in this photograph are unidentified.
- Subject Newborn infants, Nursing, Incubators (Pediatrics)
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Operating and Maintenance Instructions Model 166 Oxidant Recorder
- Bulletin 419
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Instruction manual for an instrument designed to record levels of oxidants in the atmosphere. Measuring oxidants is one way to quantify air pollution. Photochemical oxidants are air pollutants which form when air…
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Operation and maintenance of the Beckman model G pH meter
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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 “acidimeter” with its…
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Operation method for Beckman "DU" Spectrophotometer
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The watermark on the paper indicates that these directions may have been written by the Columbus Water and Chemical Testing Laboratory.
The first Beckman Instruments DU Spectrophotometer was developed in 1940, when the…
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Operator adjusting a dial on Beckman Auto Exhaust Total Hydrocarbon Analyzer
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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…
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Operator with Beckman Microcoder IIA MIC/ID System
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The MicroCoder IIA was marketed for use with Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) panels for pneumonia, influenza, and meningitis.
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Peristaltic pump for Beckman ASTRA analyzer
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This vertical pump was used to control reagent supply and volume with the ASTRA analyzer system line, a multi-channel clinical chemistry analyzer produced in the late 1970s.
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Portrait of Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004)
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Dr. Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004), pictured here with a DU Spectrophotometer, invented the first commercially successful electric pH meter in 1934. Thus began a long career manufacturing scientific and medical…
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Portrait of Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004)
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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)
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Dr. Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004) is pictured here with his pH meter, which he invented in 1934 and which became the first commercially successful electric pH meter. Thus began a long career manufacturing scientific and…
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Portrait of Joseph Coulter, Jr.
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Joseph R. Coulter, Jr. (1924-1995) co-founded Coulter Corporation with his brother, Wallace, in the 1950s. The company was acquired by Beckman Instruments in 1997.
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Portraits of Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004)
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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,…
- Photographer Dietrich, T. A., The Association, Hoag, Hank, Elson-Alexandre
- Subject Scientists--Portraits, Beckman, Arnold O., Portraits, Portraits, American
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Portraits of Joseph Coulter, Jr.
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Joseph R. Coulter, Jr. (1924-1995) co-founded Coulter Corporation with his brother, Wallace, in the 1950s. The company was acquired by Beckman Instruments in 1997.
- Subject Executives, Portraits
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Proteins by HPLC - Beckman Series 341P Liquid Chromatograph
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High-performance liquid chromatography analyzes the components of a sample by pumping a solution through a column containing an adsorbent material, which separates and interacts distinctly with the components. The flow…
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Roadrunner II Mobile Exhibit
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A traveling exhibit of Beckman Instruments' biomedical instruments products.
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Robert Lineberger with unidentified man
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Lineberger is the man on the right. The instrument they are examining is unidentified.
- Photographer Frey Photos
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Spectrophotometric data
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Table of spectrophotometer and pH readings of various substances, including strychnine, caffeine, amphetamine, benadryl, and ascorbic acid. As this document is undated and vaguely titled, it is unclear which instrument…
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Spinco Allegra 6 Centrifuge
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Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after their January 1, 1955 acquisition of industry leader, Specialized Instruments Corporation, or Spinco. With Spinco came the famous Model E Ultracentrifuge, which was…