TY - MANSCPT DB - Science History Institute DP - Science History Institute M2 - Courtesy of Science History Institute. Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, S TI - Arnold O. Beckman, interviewed by Arnold Thackray and Sturchio, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Louis) in University of Pennsylvania on July 23, 1985 ID - v692t711k PB - Science History Institute CY - Philadelphia AV - Oral History Transcript 0014B VL - Oral History Transcript 0014B AN - Oral History Transcript 0014B UR - https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/v692t711k AB - The second interview begins with Arnold Beckman describing the National Technical Laboratories in the late 1930s. He details NTL policies and operations. The majority of the transcript focuses on the change from NTL to Beckman Instruments and the development of spectrophotometry instrumentation during the 1940s. The other projects that are discussed include mass spectrometers, Geiger counters, pocket electroscopes, and especially the oxygen analyzer. A description of Beckman's reinvolvement with Caltech following World War II follows this section. Finally, the interview concludes with Beckman examining air pollution work in Los Angeles, the formation of Shockley Laboratories, and the future of the instrumentation industry. KW - California Institute of Technology KW - Chemistry, Physical and theoretical KW - Beckman, Arnold O. KW - Scientific apparatus and instruments KW - Spectrophotometer KW - Instrument manufacture KW - Bell Telephone Laboratories KW - Hydrogen-ion concentration--Measurement KW - Potentiometer KW - Chemical engineers KW - Beckman Instruments, Inc. LA - English ER -