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This digital collection features selected scientific instruments, apparatus, and analytical tools from the Institute's museum as well as photographs, rare-book engravings, and illustrations depicting various types of equipment and machinery found in laboratories, manufacturing plants, and mechanical treatises. Inventions from book wheels to fireballs can be found here, alongside more modern innovations such as Gammacells and Geiger counters.

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    Beckman Biomek 2000 Laboratory Automation Workstation

    • 1990s

    Beckman's Biomek workstations debuted in the mid-1980s and additional models were released over the next two decades. The Biomek 2000 was released in 1994.

    • Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Microcomputer workstations, Laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, inc.
  • 4 items
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    Extrusion of saran bubbles at Dow Chemical Company

    • 1993

    Four views showing various stages of the extrusion of saran bubbles from a rolling machine at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. The employee visible in the photographs is unidentified. During…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Extrusion process, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Plastics--Extrusion, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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    Beckman Biomek 1000 Automated Laboratory Workstation

    • 1980s

    Beckman's Biomek 1000 Automated Laboratory Workstation was released in 1986. New models continued to be added to the Biomek line for the next two decades.

    • Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, inc.
  • 2 items
    Photographs

    Extrusion of saran bubble at Dow Chemical Company

    • 1987 – 1988

    Two views of an unidentified employee observing the extrusion of a saran bubble from a rolling machine at the Dow Chemical Company plant in Midland, Michigan. During production, saran film passed through a series of…

    • Creator Of Work Dow Chemical Company
    • Subject Plastics, Employees, Industries, Extrusion process, Dow Chemical Company, Corporations, Plastics--Extrusion, Plastics industry and trade, Machinery
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    Unidentified man wielding syringe, with Beckman TL-100 Ultracentrifuge

    • Circa 1987

    A man flanked by dramatically-lit glassware uses a syringe, separated from a Beckman tabletop ultracentrifuge by opened blinds. This model was produced in 1978.

    Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after…

    • Subject Blinds, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Centrifuges, Syringes, Beckman Instruments, inc., Glassware
  • Photographs

    Unidentified Beckman Sample Handler

    • Undated
    • Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, inc.
  • Photographs

    Beckman Accu-Prep Liquid Handling Systems

    • Undated
    • Subject Scientific apparatus and instruments, Laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, inc.
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    Unidentified man using a Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer

    • Undated

    First marketed in 1960, the Beckman/Spinco Model 120 Amino Acid Analyzer used the Spackman-Stein-Moore technique of amino acid chromatography.

    • Subject Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Beckman Instruments, inc. Spinco Division, Scientific apparatus and instruments, Amino acids--Analysis, Beckman Instruments, inc., Glassware

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