Health & Medicine

368 items

This digital collection features selected medications and documents, manuals, and photographs relating to biochemical research and technology, with a focus on 20th-century instrumentation in medical laboratories. Various models of glucose, enzyme, and amino acid analyzers are a few of the instruments documented in these materials.

Start Over Creator Beckman Instruments, inc. ✖ Format Text ✖ Format Image ✖ Language English ✖

6 items
Ephemera

The Beckman Glucose Analyzer: A Statement of Verified Claims
- 1970
Marketing materials tout the virtues of the Beckman Glucose Analyzer, with emphasis placed upon verification of claims by the Standards Committee of the College of American Pathologists. The folded brochure includes a…
- Author Sullivan, Arthur
- Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, inc.
- Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Glucose--Analysis, Blood sugar--Analysis, Scientific apparatus and instruments, College of American Pathologists, Beckman Instruments, inc.
21 items
Handbooks and manuals

Glucose Analyzer Operating Manual
- Beckman Instructions 83513-B
- 1969-Oct
The Glucose Analyzer was developed by James Sternberg in 1969 and was one of several very successful medical testing and analysis instruments that Beckman Instruments produced in the 1970s. Its size, speed, and price…
- Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, inc.
- Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Glucose--Analysis, Blood sugar--Analysis, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Beckman Instruments, inc.
Advertisements

Your finger and our button. The simplest way to count for RIA.
- 1976
Beckman's Biogamma Radioimmuno Analyzer was introduced in 1973. Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is a technique for measuring the antigen concentration. Known quantities of radioactive (labeled or “hot”) antigens and antibodies…
- Creator Of Work Ayer Jorgensen Macdonald, Beckman Instruments, inc.
- Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Radioimmunoassay, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Beckman Instruments, inc., Medical instruments and apparatus
Advertisements

Beckman is everywhere in the hospital.
- 1974
Advertisement for the many Beckman Instruments products that are used in hospital and health services, including glucose analyzers, liquid scintillation counters, spectrophotometers, and oxygen analyzers (among many…
- Creator Of Work N.W. Ayer & Son, Beckman Instruments, inc.
- Subject Hospitals, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Medical laboratory equipment industry, Beckman Instruments, inc.
Advertisements

Baby's first breath had better be a good one...
- 1960
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…
- Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, inc.
- Subject Infants--Health and hygiene, Hydrogen-ion concentration--Measurement--Instruments, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Air--Pollution, Beckman Instruments, inc.

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