Meeker burners function the exact same way as Bunsen burners except that they are used for objects that require a wider flame base. The Meeker burner can produce more heat than a Bunsen burner and features a distinctive…

Cachet created by Fleetwood depicting "The Chemist" along with ACS logo and the tagline, "Maker of a Better Tomorrow." Stamp issued to commemorate the diamond jubilee of the American Chemical Society.

Stamp depicts profile of Fritz Haber who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for developing a process to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen gas, which allowed for the large-scale synthesis of…

Portrait of Ira Remsen (1846-1927). Along with Constantin Fahlberg, Remsen discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin in 1879.

A native of New York City, Remsen received his M.D. from the Columbia University…

Beckman Instruments 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 Angeles…

Set of celluloid billiard balls with brown cue ball; balls are divided in bottom section of square wooden box by cardboard dividers.

Collection of 13 Aramith Bakelite billiard balls. Some billiard numbers are missing or duplicated.

Green cardboard box with removable top; interior of box bottom has a white plastic insert with round indentations for…

This Exhaust Analyzer became one of Beckman Instruments' products when the company acquired Liston-Becker in 1955. It detects pollutants in the exhaust from vehicles with combustion engines.

View of employee William White examining a Weather-O-Meter at the Althouse Chemical Company Customer Service and Quality Control Laboratory in Reading, Pennsylvania. To the left of the Weather-O-Meter are two…

A half-length portrait of Friedrich Wöhler (1800–1882), a German chemist.

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…

This advertisement for both the Beckman GC-5 Gas Chromatograph the IR-102 Infrared Spectrophotometer markets a complete system for chromatographic analysis. Specifically, the ad touts the compact size (although large by…

View of a chemist checking the specific gravity of a sample of essential oil at the Norda Company plant in Boonton, New Jersey.

View of the spice stills at the Norda Company plant in Boonton, New Jersey.