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A Dial to reckon with
Box 49, Folder 13- 1956
Advertisement for the DIGIDIAL, made by the Helipot Division of Beckman Instruments, Inc.
Potentiometers regulate the flow of electricity, like the volume dial on a radio. In 1940, Arnold O. Beckman was unsatisfied…
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Letter from Arnold O. Beckman to potential Beckman@Science conference attendees
Box 6, Folder 15- 1999-Sep-24
This letter from Arnold O. Beckman invites potential attendees (and potential donors) to a conference on the future of science education in Orange County, California. This initiative to improve science education was…
- Creator Of Work Beckman, Arnold O.
- Subject Science--Study and teaching, California--Orange County, Humanitarianism, Public schools, Education
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Portrait of Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004)
Box 56, Folder 21- 1959
Dr. Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004) invented the first commercially successful electric pH meter in 1934 and thus began a long career manufacturing scientific and medical instruments with National Technical Laboratories,…
- Subject Scientists--Portraits, Beckman, Arnold O.
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Beckman IR-7 spectrophotometer in a laboratory
Box 55, Folder 122- Circa 1958
The IR-7 was first produced by Beckman Intruments, Inc. in 1958, building on more than a decade of development of infrared spectrophotometers. The IR-7 continued the line of double-beam instruments, begun by the IR-4…
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Man in a field of crops using a Beckman Pocket pH Meter
Box 86- Circa 1956
An unidentified man kneels in a field of crops looking at the reading on a Pocket pH Meter, first marketed by Beckman Instruments in 1956. A photograph from the same session appears in advertisements for the Pocket pH…
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Robert T. Sheen, W. G. Brombacher, and Arnold O. Beckman with a Ratio Recording Spectrophotometer
Box 55, Folder 123- 1955-Sep-15
Arnold O. Beckman (R), founder of Beckman Instruments, Inc., stands with Robert T. Sheen (L) and W. G. Brombacker beside a Ratio Recording Spectrophotometer at a meeting of the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation…
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Beckman IR-1 spectrophotometer with glass lid
Box 55, Folder 79- Circa 1942
The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold O. Beckman in 1942, asking for an infrared spectrophotometer that they could use to create rubber. Under this…
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Beckman IR-1 Spectrophotometer without case
Box 55, Folder 80- Undated
The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold O. Beckman in 1942, asking for an infrared spectrophotometer that they could use to create rubber. Under this…
