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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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Name your punishment...
- 1958
Advertisement for Helipot Series T Potentiometers.
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…
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Buckets of product...one by one.
- 1959
This advertisement from Beckman Instruments places the company in a long narrative of scientific instrumentation, starting with 15th century alchemist, Hieronymus Brunschwig. Brunschwig's distilling techniques are…
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A place for data to come home to
- 1958
Advertisement for Beckman Data Reduction Systems, especially the storage and retrieval of telemetered missile data.
Beckman Instruments' analog computers were developed by their Berkeley Division as early as 1953. The…
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Four -- count 'em -- four
- 1959
Advertisement for four different components manufactured by the Helipot Division of Beckman Instruments: rotating components, expanded scale meters, standard breadboard parts, and potentiometers.
Potentiometers…
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It's a far cry from Scarlett's day...
- 1959
This advertisement from Beckman Instruments places the company in a long narrative of scientific instrumentation, starting with 18th century eyeglass manufacturer, Edward Scarlett (optician to His Majesty King George…
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Beckman pH Control ends "red water days" in Macon
- 1950s
This advertisement describes a use case for Beckman pH meters in which Macon Water Works used the instruments to control the acidity of the water and inhibit corrosion of pipes.
Arnold Beckman invented his first pH…
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An Infrared Spectrophotometer any lab can afford -- any technician can operate
- 1957
This advertisement shows a woman using Beckman Instruments' new IR-6 Spectrophotometer. The text touts its low cost, ease of use, and the ability to use the instrument within existing workflows.
Originally developed…
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pH means Beckman
- 1957
This advertisements shows off the range of Beckman Instruments' pH meters available in 1957, highlighting the variety of size and price.
Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at the request of a chemist…
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Diagnose process upsets with Gas Chromatography
- 1957
Advertisement for the Model 120 Industrial Gas Chromatograph.
Beckman Instruments entered the gas chromatograph business in 1956 with the acquisition of the successful Watts Manufacturing Company. Later that year,…
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Shockley 4-layer transistor diode simplifies switching circuitry for computers, telephony, control
- 1958
Advertisement for the Shockley 4-layer diode with diagrams.
In 1955, Arnold O. Beckman and William Shockley entered business together when they established Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories as a subsidiary of Beckman…
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For very little coin, Beckman will put your old DU in mint condition.
- 1950s
In 1950, Beckman Instruments' had so many DU Spectrophotometers still in use that they offered to refurbish old models (for a fee, of course). This service could include replacing a power supply, repainting, and…
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Beckman IR-5 Spectrophotometer
- Circa 1957
The IR-5 was a double-beam spectrophotometer first produced in 1957.
The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold O. Beckman in 1942, asking for an…
- Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, Inc.
- Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Spectrophotometer, Infrared spectroscopy, Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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Here's the new Beckman Pocket pH Meter
- 1956
Color advertisement for the Pocket pH Meter, which was first sold in 1956. The main selling point of this model was its portability, meaning that pH readings could be taken in the field or on site, instead of requiring…
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Now! Make soil pH measurements in the field
- 1957
Advertisement featuring an image of a man kneeling in a field looking at the reading on a Beckman Pocket pH Meter. This model of pH meter was first marketed by Beckman Instruments in 1956, and as this advertisement…
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A Dial to reckon with
- 1956
Advertisement for the DIGIDIAL, made by the Helipot Division of Beckman Instruments, Inc.
Potentiometers regulate the flow of electricity, like the volume dial on a radio. In 1940, Arnold O. Beckman was unsatisfied…
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Portrait of Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004)
- 1959
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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Beckman IR-7 spectrophotometer in a laboratory
- Circa 1958
The IR-7 was first produced by Beckman Intruments, Inc. in 1958, building on more than a decade of development of infrared spectrophotometers. The IR-7 continued the line of double-beam instruments, begun by the IR-4…
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Man in a field of crops using a Beckman Pocket pH Meter
- Circa 1956
An unidentified man kneels in a field of crops looking at the reading on a Pocket pH Meter, first marketed by Beckman Instruments in 1956. A photograph from the same session appears in advertisements for the Pocket pH…
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Robert T. Sheen, W. G. Brombacher, and Arnold O. Beckman with a Ratio Recording Spectrophotometer
- 1955-Sep-15
Arnold O. Beckman (R), founder of Beckman Instruments, Inc., stands with Robert T. Sheen (L) and W. G. Brombacker beside a Ratio Recording Spectrophotometer at a meeting of the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation…