This Exhaust Analyzer became one of Beckman Instruments' products when the company acquired Liston-Becker in 1955. It detects pollutants in the exhaust from vehicles with combustion engines.

This photograph is part of a series of marketing images used to demonstrate the small size of Helipot products. The text on the label identifies the products as Series 7260 multi-turn, wirewound potentiometers and the…

A nurse uses a Beckman Oxygen Meter to monitor the oxygen flowing through an isolette containing a baby. Monitoring oxygen flow greatly reduced the rate of blindness (retrolental fibroplasia) among premature infants in…

These photographs, numbered 1339-1 thru 1339-11, are part of a series of marketing images used to demonstrate the small size of Helipot products. The "Helipot line" train carries various products, including…

This photograph is part of a series of marketing images used to demonstrate the small size of Helipot products. The text on the label identifies the products as Series 7266 and 7263 potentiometers and the photographer,…

This photograph is part of a series of marketing images used to demonstrate the small size of various Helipot products. The text on the label identifies the photographer, "A & H," as Armstrong and Hess.

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This photograph depicts Helitrim trimming potentiometers displayed on a moon-like surface and is part of a series of marketing images designed to emphasize the small size of the potentiometers. The text on the label…

This photograph is part of a series of marketing images used to demonstrate the small size of Helipot products. The text on the label identifies the product as a Model 77P Helitrim potentiometer and the photographer, "A…

This photograph is part of a series of marketing images used to demonstrate the small size of Helipot products. The text on the label identifies the product as a Model 77P Helitrim potentiometer and the photographer, "A…

Although the first DU prototype used glass, all later models contained quartz prisms which functioned as chromators. They transmitted and separated the light generated by a hydrogen lamp into its absorption spectrum,…

The man and woman in this photograph with the EASE (Electronic Analog and Simulation Equipment) computer are unidentified.

Beckman Instruments' analog computers were being produced by their Berkeley Division as early…

Beckman's Space Engineering Group contracted with NASA to design a gas chromatograph to analyze the atmosphere within a spacecraft's cabin. This prototype device weighed under 12 pounds and used under 10 watts of power.

Although the first DU prototype used glass, all later models contained quartz prisms which functioned as chromators. They transmitted and separated the light generated by a hydrogen lamp into its absorption spectrum,…

In 1955, Arnold O. Beckman and William Shockley entered business together when they established Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories as a subsidiary of Beckman Instruments, Inc. with the goal of mass producing…

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 “acidimeter” with its…

A Nearnst glower is a now-obsolete device that uses a cylindrical rod of heated oxides to deliver infrared radiation in instruments used for spectroscopy.

The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a…

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 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 DR Spectrophotometer was a basic model DU (an ultraviolet, single beam, quartz-crystal spectrophotometer) with an added recorder. This one-sheet description of the instrument was used in several Beckman Instruments…

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…