Advertisement for "rugged, dependable" line of Beckman IR spectrophotometers.

The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold O. Beckman in 1942, asking for…

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…

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…

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…

Advertisement for four different components manufactured by the Helipot Division of Beckman Instruments: rotating components, expanded scale meters, standard breadboard parts, and potentiometers.

Potentiometers…

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…

This advertisement for the Beckman Total Hydrocarbon Analyzer describes several uses for this instrument: purging missile fuel lines, studying air pollutants, monitoring process gas streams, and detecting impurities in…

This advertisement hits all the Beckman Instruments highlights, like oxygen analyzers, air pollution control, and pH meters. These instruments and their related industries and developments will make the lives of…

Advertisement for Beckman Instruments gas chromatographs being used at the Dow Chemical plant in Bay City, Michigan.

Beckman Instruments entered the gas chromatograph business in 1956 with the acquisition of the…

This advertisement ran in Playboy in 1960 (among other publications), with the goal of recruiting new employees. It builds on the fame of Beckman's pH meter line of instruments via humorous German-accented English that…

Advertisement showing a woman using a Beckman Model 76 Expanded Scale pH Meter.

Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at the request of a chemist from the California citrus industry, who needed an accurate…

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…

The glass dumbbell in Beckman Instruments' oxygen analyzers came from the original design that Linus Pauling submitted to the National Defense Research Committee in 1940. In this design, the glass dumbbell was suspended…

Congratulations to CalTech, who in 1971 had the oldest Beckman Instruments pH meter still in operating condition according to this advertisement. The Model F was introduced in 1936 and the Model G in 1937, back when…

Advertisement for various Beckman oxygen analyzers used in the food packaging industry.

Developed from a Linus Pauling design during WWII, the technology behind Beckman Instruments’ oxygen analyzers ended up doing such…

The SpinPro Expert system software designed ultracentrifuge procedures based on users' answers to a series of questions, intentionally mirroring the telephone conversations that users used to have with Beckman…

Advertisement for the Microspec Infrared Spectrophotometer, made by Beckman Instruments.

The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold O. Beckman in 1942,…

One of several specialty items produced for the Helipot Division of Beckman Instruments, Inc. in the 1960s. Bears the words "have faith" and "keep smiling" around an illustration of a man with an apple on his head and…

One of several specialty items produced for the Helipot Division of Beckman Instruments, Inc. in the 1960s. Bears the words "have faith" and "keep smiling" around an illustration of a man with an apple on his head and…

One of several specialty items produced for the Helipot Division of Beckman Instruments, Inc. in the 1960s. Bears the words "have faith" and "keep smiling" around an illustration of a man with an apple on his head and…

One of several specialty items produced for the Helipot Division of Beckman Instruments, Inc. in the 1960s. Bears the words "have faith" and "keep smiling" around an illustration of a man with an apple on his head and…

This advertisement for the Beckman Instruments' pHASAR I pH meter is staged on the set of the 1973 science fiction television show, Search.

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

These instructions for phototube replacement describe some of the inner workings of the first model D/DU spectrophotometer made by National Technical Laboratories in 1945. The phototube being replaced in these…

A letter from Arnold O. Beckman to Fred T. Williams, a patent advisor at the National Defense Research Committee. In this letter, Beckman reports on the delay in filing a patent for his carbon monoxide detecting…

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…