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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.

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    Business correspondence

    Letter from S. S. Prentiss to Julius Kauffman

    • 1945-Sep-05

    Prentiss responds to Kauffman's assessment of the hospital oxygen analyzer, with emphasis upon the question of its ruggedness.

    Developed from a Linus Pauling design during WWII, the technology behind Beckman…

    • Addressee Kauffman, Julius
    • Author Prentiss, Spencer S.
    • Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Oxygen--Measurement, Oxygen--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, inc., United States. Army Medical Center
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    Narrative of glucose analyzer development

    • 1967

    The handwritten account, possibly written by James C. Sternberg, is missing early pages.

    The Glucose Analyzer was developed by James Sternberg in 1969 and was one of several very successful medical testing and analysis…

    • Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Glucose--Analysis, Blood sugar--Analysis, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Beckman Instruments, inc.

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