Los Angeles County General Hospital nurse Mary Finlay is monitoring the oxygen levels of a prematurely born infant in an incubator, to provide just the right oxygen mixture. Too little oxygen has obvious repercussions,…

An EASE (Electronic Analog and Simulation Equipment) Computer set up in a room with some kind of graphic display monitor and printed text output.

Beckman Instruments' analog computers were being produced by their…

London-based Research & Industrial Instrumentation Company (RIIC), referenced in the photograph's description, was a division of Beckman Instruments.

Animal weighing station made by IBM, with a terminal that is likely running Beckman Instruments' TOXSYS analysis software.

The monitor on top is likely running Beckman Instruments TOXSYS software for the chemical analysis of body tissues.

The inventory that accompanies the photo album containing this image only says that this mysterious "fixture" is "home made." The port on the left is likely a serial DB-25 port.

This instrument was used to dilute and dispense liquid with precision.

Controls injections and sample size for instruments that run analytic tests on liquid samples.

Stacked in a pyramid, these reagents include rheumatoid factor, immunoglobulin, albumin, prealbumin, and others.

The exact purpose of this work station is unknown.

A dead rat on a scale is being weighed to collect data used in chemical analyses of its tissues. The weighing station itself is manufactured by IBM.

This instrument measured density by scanning electrophoresis media. The Appraise debuted in 1984.

This vertical pump was used to control reagent supply and volume with the ASTRA analyzer system line, a multi-channel clinical chemistry analyzer produced in the late 1970s.

Used with the ASTRA analyzer system line, a multi-channel clinical chemistry analyzer produced by Beckman Instruments in the late 1970s.

Two unidentified employees of Beckman Instruments test a Combustion Efficiency System in an assembly and testing work space. Other Beckman employees and and instruments are visible in the background. The Combustion…

Cuvettes are straight-sided containers for holding liquid samples used in optical analysis instruments like spectrophotometers.

The Astra line of analyzers used multiple channels to perform continuous flow and discrete analyses of electrolytes and "routine chemistries."

The fact sheet describes the sample genetic material in the vial in the foreground: an "engineered gene for mature Human Interleukin 2."

A dead rat on a scale is being weighed to collect data used in chemical analyses of its tissues. The weighing station itself is manufactured by IBM.

The ASTRA 4 is a multi-channel analyzer that could perform continuous flow and discrete analyses of electrolytes and other "routine chemistries."

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…

Promotional branded items bearing the Beckman Instruments, Inc. name, including calculators, tennis balls, screwdriver, and highlighter.

Two photographs are taped together. A Solu bridge or meter determines the dissolved solids in water by measuring its conductivity. The ACTA V was a UV-visible spectrophotometer, first released in 1970.