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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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  • Beckman Instruments, Inc.218
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  • 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.
  • Photographs, Portraits

    Portrait of Isaac Ott (1847-1916)

    • Circa 1910

    Portrait of Isaac Ott (1847-1916). Ott was born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania on November 30, 1847 and graduated from Lafayette College (class of 1867). Ott went onto study medicine at the University of…

    • Subject Portrait photography, Ott, Isaac, 1847-1916, Medical education, Portraits, University of Pennsylvania
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    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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