Beckman's XL-A Analytical Centrifuge debuted in 1991.

Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after their January 1, 1955 acquisition of industry leader, Specialized Instruments Corporation, or Spinco. With…

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…

This advertisement for the series 4200 IR Spectrophotometer connects the work that Beckman Instruments is doing to the work of William Herschel, the British astronomer who discovered infrared radiation in 1800.

The…

In these specifications for the design of a new oxygen electrode, the most important consideration is beauty, followed by mechanical and electrical concerns.

This electrode was first used inside Beckman Instruments pH…

This electrode was first used inside Beckman Instruments pH meters and later in many other instruments.

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,…

These handwritten notes (by an unidentified author) detail the process by which Linus Pauling came to National Technical Laboratories to produce his oxygen meter design and how this lead to the formation of Arnold O.…

This advertisement for the Model W pH meter promotes its use in monitoring pH levels of wood pulp stock to ensure equipment works properly at the Bowaters Southern Paper Corporation.

Arnold Beckman invented his first…

This instrument detects pollutants in the exhaust from vehicles with combustion engines.

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

The DU 7 featured a microprocessor and a built in video graphic display.

The first Beckman Instruments DU Spectrophotometer was developed in 1940, when the company was still called National Technical Laboratories.…

William F. Ballhaus Sr. replaced Arnold O. Beckman as the president of Beckman Instruments, Inc. in 1965. Ballhaus shifted the company's focus from defense and scientific instruments to medical instruments.

An unidentified man with a tattoo on his forearm has removed the case of a Model B DU Spectrophotometer in order to demonstrate its functions to three other (also unidentified) men.

The first Beckman Instruments DU…

A note on the back of this photograph might identify two of the people in this image as Jim Kuffert and Shirley Finch.

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

Beckman made hypoxia warning systems for aircraft pilots and astronauts.

This computing spectrophotometer was controlled by a microprocessor and included a video graphics display.

The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began as a request from the Office of Rubber Reserve to Arnold…

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…

Dr. Arnold O. Beckman (1900-2004), pictured here with a DU Spectrophotometer, invented the first commercially successful electric pH meter in 1934. Thus began a long career manufacturing scientific and medical…

This research team from the Spinco Division of Beckman Instruments designed and developed the L2.

Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after their January 1, 1955 acquisition of industry leader, Specialized…

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…

The Astra 8 analyzer used multiple channels to perform continuous flow and discrete analyses of electrolytes and "routine chemistries." It was controlled by a microprocessor with 52K bytes of memory.

Dr. James C. Sternberg (1927-2001) was the Vice President of Advanced Research at Beckman Instruments and responsible for the development of the Glucose Analyzer in the 1970. In 1968 he published a landmark paper on a…

A note on the back indicates that this is a "precision adjustment." Steve Murphy was the supervisor of National Technical Laboratories' infrared assembly department.

The Beckman Instruments IR spectrophotometers began…

This glass dumbbell was key to the functioning of the Pauling Oxygen Meter, although production was tricky and originally required a human glass blower to shape the hollow ends of the tiny dumbbell with puffs of breath.…

Images show a man adjusting the front and underside of the instrument, in a work space containing other, unidentified instruments.

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

A Polaroid photograph of what seems to be a Model G pH meter in a clear glass case as part of an exhibit or display.

Arnold Beckman invented his first pH meter in 1934 at the request of a chemist from the California…