The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold O. Beckman in 1942, asking for an infrared spectrophotometer that they could use to create rubber. Under this…

The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold O. Beckman in 1942, asking for an infrared spectrophotometer that they could use to create rubber. Under this…

An unidentified man with a tattoo on his forearm has removed the case of a Model B DU Spectrophotometer in order to demonstrate its functions to three other (also unidentified) men.

The first Beckman Instruments DU…

Though the photo set is identified as Beckman with "employees," some of the photographs depict ceremonies and visits to non-corporate locations, like CalTech. Some photographs are attributed, dated (1941, 1962, 1967),…

The bordered photograph featuring Coca-Cola bottles and ice buckets is dated 1949. The bordered photographs of children are dated 1946. The exact date of the photographs without white borders is unknown.

This building at 820 Mission Street was the first built exclusively for National Technical Laboratories in 1940.

This glass dumbbell was key to the functioning of the Pauling Oxygen Meter, although production was tricky and originally required a human glass blower to shape the hollow ends of the tiny dumbbell with puffs of breath.…

The document and an accompanying manual were intended to prepare sales staff to answer customer questions and perform other job functions. The Sterimatic was a device which automatically dispensed a pH-controlled…

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…

This report is not an instruction manual, but instead an overview of the (DU) photoelectric quartz spectrophotometer, containing descriptions of its components and specifications.

The first Beckman Instruments DU…

This advertisement, reprinted from the American Chemical Society News Edition, may be the earliest advertisement for the DU model. The page is stamped Apr 25 1961 (though the date is crossed out) and the reprint note is…

The article is reprinted from the Journal of the Optical Society of America Vol. 31, No. 11, November 1941 and was presented at the Ninth Summer Conference on Spectroscopy and Its Applications, held at the Massachusetts…

The Model R Industrial pH Meter was first produced in 1942, although this photograph was likely taken much later.

Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at the request of a chemist from the California…

The IR-1 Spectrophotometer was developed by Beckman Instruments, Inc. in 1942 as a secret project for the United States' Office of Rubber Reserve for use in creating artificial rubber during World War II. The IR-1 was…

The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold O. Beckman in 1942, asking for an infrared spectrophotometer that they could use to create rubber. Under this…

The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold O. Beckman in 1942, asking for an infrared spectrophotometer that they could use to create rubber. Under this…

The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold O. Beckman in 1942, asking for an infrared spectrophotometer that they could use to create rubber. Under this…

A company Christmas party for which NTL staff were encouraged to compete in some kind of model building contest.

In 1954, Beckman Instruments' headquarters moved from Pasadena to Fullerton, California.

Some photos are undated, but the ones with dates were taken between 1943 and 1953. Several have a photographer's stamp on the…

Used for gas chromatography, this hydrogen flame ionization detector was fist produced in the early 1940s.

The oxygen recorder described was intended for analyzing flue gases produced from burning oil or coal.

This building at 820 Mission Street was the first built exclusively for National Technical Laboratories in 1940.

One photograph bears a photographer's stamp for J. Allen Hawkins on the back, but the other images in…

The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold O. Beckman in 1942, asking for an infrared spectrophotometer that they could use to create rubber. Under this…

Memo regarding Pauling Oxygen Meter submarine model, which was developed by Arnold Beckman during World War II. The British Navy has put in orders for the instrument, and here Pauling inquires as to why the United…