The gas flow meter was manufactured for Scott Corporation by Beckman Instruments.

The system, photographed with the internal components visible, detected H2 and O2.

The Boattail System detected H2 and O2.

Beckman's Space Engineering Group (SEG) was formed within the Scientific Process Instruments Division (SPID) in 1959. In 1964, it subcontracted to Space General Corp. to perform work for the U.S. Army. The SEG was…

Beckman's Space Engineering Group (SEG) was formed within the Scientific Process Instruments Division (SPID) in 1959. In 1964, it subcontracted to Space General Corp. to perform work for the U.S. Army. The SEG was…

Beckman's Space Engineering Group (SEG) was formed within the Scientific Process Instruments Division (SPID) in 1959. In 1964, it subcontracted to North American Aviation to perform work for NASA's Apollo program. The…

Beckman's Space Engineering Group (SEG) was formed within the Scientific Process Instruments Division (SPID) in 1959. It developed instrumentation for use in the punishing environmental conditions of space as well as,…

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,…

Beckman's Space Engineering Group (SEG) was formed within the Scientific Process Instruments Division (SPID) in 1959. In 1964, it subcontracted to North American Aviation to perform work for NASA's Apollo program. The…

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,…

In 1954, Beckman's headquarters moved from Pasadena to Fullerton.

A group of eleven men, standing and crouching indoors in front of various pieces of unidentified scientific equipment.

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…

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,…

The instruments filling this room -- Beckman Instruments' System TR, introduced in 1973 -- were the first automated analyzer for clinical enzymes. The two men in the background of this image are unidentified.

The photograph was taken to mark the Coulter Corporation's 35th anniversary. The group in the photograph are presumably Coulter employees at the company's Miami headquarters. Most wear red and white--the company's…

Joseph Coulter, Jr., Laura Coulter-Jones, Wallace Coulter, and Joseph Coulter III pose for a family portrait.

Wallace and Joseph Coulter founded the Coulter Corporation to market Coulter Counters, instruments for blood…

Wallace H. Coulter (1913-1998) enumerated the Coulter Principle for counting and sizing particles suspended in a fluid. He patented the Coulter Counter for blood cell analysis in 1953.

Joseph R. Coulter, Jr.…

Joseph R. Coulter, Jr. (1924-1995) co-founded Coulter Corporation with his brother, Wallace, in the 1950s. The company was acquired by Beckman Instruments in 1997.

The Air Pollution Control District mobile emissions van tested automobile exhaust with PID analysis systems.

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

Acralyzers monitor and record low atmospheric concentrations of oxidants and oxides of nitrogen.

Beckman Instruments, Inc. became interested in measuring, controlling, and fighting air pollution in the late 1940s and…