National_Inking_Appliance_Company_original_building_pasadena_5x21tf694.tiff

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Pasadena garage, original site of National Inking Appliance Company (later to become National Technical Laboratories) (

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Pasadena garage, original site of National Inking Appliance Company (later to become National Technical Laboratories)

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Pasadena garage, original site of National Inking Appliance Company (later to become National Technical Laboratories)

This garage was the first location of the National Inking Appliance Company, founded by the National Postal Meter Company in 1934 to manufacture the new, nonclogging inking device invented by Arnold O. Beckman. This garage was owned by Beckman's friend, Fred Hanson, a former instrument maker for CalTech who used it to store his Studebaker and piles of lumber. When the inking device was not a success, Beckman and the NIAC would turn to developing the first successful pH meter. With this shift in focus, the NIAC became National Technical Laboratories, and Beckman's first pH meters (or "acidimeters") were created in this garage.

Published without a copyright notice in Beckman Instruments Feedback newsletter, May 1960 (box 44, folder 35) Original photograph likely dates to the 1930s.

Date

1960

Collection

Science History Institute

	Location	315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , 19106
	Coordinates	39° 56′ 56.04″ N, 75° 08′ 47.4″ W
	Established	1982
	Website	http://www.sciencehistory.org/
	Authority file	: Q5090408 VIAF : 4412163159960301640007 ISNI : 0000000121917991 LCCN : no2021104345 BNF : 16931028s NKC : ko2010557072 WorldCat

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Beckman Historical Collection

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Science History Institute .

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Image downloaded with permission from the Science History Institute, as part of the Wikipedian in Residence initiative.

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https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/dz010q19j

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