Cary Instruments was founded in 1946 by
Howard Cary,
George W. Downs and William C. Miller under the name Applied Physics Corporation. Howard Cary previously had been vice president in charge of development for National Technologies Laboratories (later to become Beckman instruments and eventually
Beckman Coulter
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), where he had worked on the development of the
DU line of UV/Vis
Spectrophotometers.
The Applied Physics Corporation, subsequently renamed to Cary Instruments company, became well known as a supplier of high-quality optical instrumentation for scientific laboratories. The company was purchased in 1966 by
Varian Associates, at which time it became known as the Cary Instruments division. In 1982 the Cary division was merged with the
Techtron division of Varian and moved to Melbourne Australia. The Cary brand is still retained to the present day for UV/Vis
Spectrophotometers,
Fluorometers and
FTIR spectrometers, even after the acquisition of
Varian, Inc. by
Agilent Technologies
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in 2010.
Scientific instruments
The following are some of the scientific instruments developed by Cary Instruments.
File:Cary Model 14 Recording Spectrophotometer back cover crop Cary Model 11 Recording Spectrophotometer.tif , Cary Model 11 Recording Spectrophotometer
File:Cary Model 14 Recording Spectrophotometer page 5 crop Cary Model 14 Rear View Door Open.tif , Cary Model 14 Recording Spectrophotometer (back open)
File:Cary Model 14 Recording Spectrophotometer back cover crop Cary Model 14B Recording Spectrophotometer.tif , Model 14B Recording Spectrophotometer (front)
File:Cary Model 14 Recording Spectrophotometer back cover crop Cary Model 81 Raman Spectrophotometer.tif , Cary Model 81 Raman Spectrophotometer
File:Cary Model 14 Recording Spectrophotometer back cover crop Cary Model 31 Electrometer.tif , Cary Model 31 Electrometer
File:Cary Model 14 Recording Spectrophotometer back cover crop Cary Model 41 Calorimeter.tif , Cary Model 41 Calorimeter
References
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NIST PDF fileabout the founding.
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Varian brochure
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