Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after their January 1, 1955 acquisition of industry leader, Specialized Instruments Corporation, or Spinco. With Spinco came the famous Model E Ultracentrifuge, which was…

Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after their January 1, 1955 acquisition of industry leader, Specialized Instruments Corporation, or Spinco. With Spinco came the famous Model E Ultracentrifuge, which was…

Dr. Robert Millikan was an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 for his work the photoelectric effect and for measuring the elementary electronic charge. In 1923 he also became director of…

Beckman Instruments had a subsidiary company and manufacturing plant called Aplar in El Salvador. In 1979 the country was on the brink of a civil war that would ultimately span three decades. On September 21, 1979, the…

Donald Strauss was first hired by Beckman Instruments in 1952 as director of employee relations, and he would go on to become vice president of administration before he retired in 1989. He was also mayor of Newport…

Beckman Instruments had a subsidiary company and manufacturing plant called Aplar in El Salvador. In 1979 the country was on the brink of a civil war that would ultimately span three decades. On September 21, 1979, the…

Head of the Systems Division at Beckman Instruments in the 1960s. The Systems Division designed and manufactured computers and data handling systems. Nesbit went on to become vice president for research and development.

Lineberger is the man on the right. The instrument they are examining is unidentified.

The man shaking hands with Queen Elizabeth may be Arnold O. Beckman, founder of Beckman Instruments. The man to the right of the image is unidentified.

Unidentified men trading stock on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

From left to right: Arnold O. Beckman (founder of Beckman Instruments), Michael Bregman, Keith Funston, and Fred Erhman.

Arnold O. Beckman, founder and CEO of Beckman Instruments, is standing on the right. The other people in this image are unidentified.

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An ultraviolet and visible light spectrophotometer.

Dr. Howard Schachman, a Spinco Division technical consultant and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, displays the Serial No. 1 and Serial No. 1000 of the Model E Ultracentrifuge at an event celebrating the…

Unidentified Beckman Instruments employees who worked on the LS 9800 liquid scintillation counter. Liquid scintillation counters measure the radioactivity of a sample by mixing the sample with a solvent containing a…

Beckman Instruments had a subsidiary company and manufacturing plant called Aplar in El Salvador. In 1979 the country was on the brink of a civil war that would ultimately span three decades. On September 21, 1979, the…

Unidentified Beckman Instruments employees with a LS 9800 liquid scintillation counter. Liquid scintillation counters measure the radioactivity of a sample by mixing the sample with a solvent containing a scintillator,…

The Beckman Instruments sales force in 1953, during a time of rapid growth for the company. This was only three years after the company changed its name from Arnold O. Beckman, Inc. and one year after the acquisition…

This photo was taken the same year that Beckman Instruments acquired Liston-Becker. This acquisition brought Liston-Becker's emissions testers and analyzers to Beckman, which continued to produce those instruments along…

Image includes: Arnold Beckman (center, seated); Dr. William F. Ballhaus Sr. (standing); Harry Gray (far right). The other men in this photograph are unidentified.

This model covered ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared spectral ranges. The Beckman DK Spectrophotometer was an enhancement of the DU, which expanded the instrument’s range of into near-infrared. This was…

From left to right: F. Clifford Jr. (Spinco Division manger), Arnold O. Beckman, Frederick Terman (provost and vice president of Stanford University), and Rear Admiral John Ball (mayor of Palo Alto) look at plans for…

EPUT (Events Per Unit Time) meters measure changes in voltage during a specified amount of time, and so can be used to count or measure any event that can be represented as a voltage change or pulse. This includes, but…