Developed from a Linus Pauling design during WWII, the technology behind Beckman Instruments’ oxygen analyzers ended up doing such diverse jobs as monitoring astronauts’ respiration, maintaining packaged food safety,…

Smudged ink on the front of the photograph suggests it may have been stored alongside other Photo Visions photographs.

Beckman Instruments, Inc. became interested in measuring, controlling, and fighting air pollution…

Beckman's Creatinine Analyzer 2 debuted in 1979. Creatinine, a byproduct of muscle metabolism, can be measured to determine renal function.

Beckman introduced the KLiNa Flame System, a flame photometer with attached diluter and printer, in 1971. Flame photometers determine the presence and concentration of some metal ions in a substance by exposing the…

Beckman's Creatinine Analyzer 2 debuted in 1979. Creatinine, a byproduct of muscle metabolism, can be measured to determine renal function.

The Glucose Analyzer was developed by James Sternberg in 1969 and was one of several very successful medical testing and analysis instruments that Beckman Instruments produced in the 1970s. Its size, speed, and price…

Beckman Instruments began producing dynographs in 1961.

The ACTA V was a UV-visible spectrophotometer, first released in 1970.

Beckman Instruments began producing dynographs in 1961.

Beckman Instruments debuted an Immunochemistry Analyzer in 1977 and an Auto ICS (Immunochemistry System) in 1980.

Electrophoresis uses an electric field to separate particles in a medium (like a gel) based on their size, charge, or a binding affinity.

Houston, Texas-based Infotronics introduced the CRS-100 in 1967.

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

Beckman's Model 24 was a double-beam visible light spectrophotometer.

The first Beckman Instruments DU Spectrophotometer was developed in 1940, when the company was still called National Technical Laboratories. Spurred by employee Howard Cary (who had previously been involved in pH meter…

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…

The Model 915 converted samples to carbon dioxide and used a non-dispersive infrared analyzer to determine the total carbon and inorganic carbon. Organic carbon was determined as the difference between those values.

The Model 915 converted samples to carbon dioxide and used a non-dispersive infrared analyzer to determine the total carbon and inorganic carbon. Organic carbon was determined as the difference between those values.

Beckman Instruments, Inc. became interested in measuring, controlling, and fighting air pollution in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when company president Arnold O. Beckman became the scientific adviser to the Los…

Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at the request of a chemist from the California citrus industry, who needed an accurate way to measure the acidity of his product. The resulting instrument kicked off…