Screenshot from the film The Swarm, featuring a Beckman Instruments Glucose Analyzer on the table in the foreground, on the right hand side of the image. Another unidentified Beckman instrument is in the background.

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Arnold O. Beckman at a Delta Upsilon party during his time at the University of Illinois, 1918-1923.

Dr. Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004) invented the first commercially successful electric pH meter in 1934 and thus began…

(From left to right) Donald Duncan, the head of the Helipot Division, is holding the shovel. Arnold O. Beckman, founder of Beckman Instruments, is standing on the tractor. Dora Hill, the mayor of Newport Beach is…

Helipot was a division of Beckman Instruments, Inc., and manufactured potentiometers and other electronic components. Arnold O. Beckman (founder of Beckman Instruments) is at center. The other men in this photograph are…

An ammeter is used to measure the electric current flowing through the circuit. This instrument is distinct from those which measure voltage, like a voltmeter.

The industrial model pH meters had features designed specifically for industrial (as opposed to laboratory) environments, like the Model W's rubber gaskets to prevent corrosive gases or dust from entering the…

This is likely the GC-1, but the lack of model identification does not rule out the possibility of it being an unlabeled GC-2.

Beckman Instruments entered the gas chromatograph business in 1956 with the acquisition of…

Two unidentified men examining a Beckman Instruments display at a trade show.

The Model 915 converted samples to carbon dioxide and used a non-dispersive infrared analyzer to determine the total carbon and inorganic…

The Pocket pH meter allowed pH readings to be taken in the field, in a laboratory, or at any site, without needing to send samples back to a laboratory and a more stationary instrument.

Arnold Beckman invented his…

Beckman Instruments entered the gas chromatograph business in 1956 with the acquisition of the successful Watts Manufacturing Company. Later that year, Beckman Instruments produced its first gas chromatograph, the GC-1,…

Used for performing titrations with a Karl Fischer reagent.

The Beckman DK Spectrophotometer was an enhancement of the DU, which expanded the instrument’s range of into near-infrared. This was accomplished by chemist Wilbur I. Kaye, who began his work on science behind the DK at…

Arnold O. Beckman (L), founder of Beckman Instruments, Inc., stands with Robert T. Sheen (middle) and W. G. Brombacker (R) beside a Ratio Recording Spectrophotometer at a meeting of the Instrumentation, Systems, and…

First produced in 1981, the Beckman Model 42 Clinical Spectrophotometer incorporated a UV/visible spectrophotometer, a microprocessor, and a printer into one unit.

The people in the photograph and the ultimate purpose of these particular liquid crystal displays are unidentified.

Used for performing titrations with a Karl Fischer reagent. It is likely this photograph is mislabeled and the name of the instrument model is actually KF (not FK).

This photograph was taken at a trade show, where the Beckman Instruments' advertising campaign took the form of a political campaign, with the slogan "Put Beckman in Control." The slogan was a reference to Beckman…

This instrument detects mercury vapor in air.

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 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 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 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 DK Spectrophotometer was an enhancement of the DU, which expanded the instrument’s range of into near-infrared. This was accomplished by chemist Wilbur I. Kaye, who began his work on science behind the DK at…