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 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.

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,…

The brochure touts the benefits of a device which automatically dispenses a pH-controlled chlorine germicide rinse. Soda fountains, bars, and lunch counters are the target market.

This advertisement for the Model G pH meter highlights the different electrodes that could be used with it. The Model G was Beckman Instruments's first commercial pH meter.

Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in…

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 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 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 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.

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

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…