Fluke Corporation is an American manufacturer of industrial test, measurement, and diagnostic equipment, including

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. It was started in 1948 by John Fluke while he was employed at

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History

John Fluke founded Fluke Corporation in October 1953 as the John Fluke Manufacturing Company, Inc., producing electrical metering equipment. In 1987, Fluke partnered with the Dutch electronics manufacturer

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. Together, the companies developed the scopemeter, an instrument combining features of an

oscilloscope An oscilloscope (formerly known as an oscillograph, informally scope or O-scope) is a type of electronic test instrument that graphically displays varying voltages of one or more signals as a function of time. Their main purpose is capturing i ...

and a

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. Fluke purchased the testing and measurements division of Philips in 1993 for $41.8 million. The Philips PM series of measurement instruments was rebranded as Fluke. Fluke was bought by the

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in 1998. Danaher spun off several subsidiaries, including Fluke, in 2016 to create Fortive.

Purchase of DNI Nevada

In 2002, Fluke purchased DNI Nevada (formerly Dynatech Nevada/Neurodyne-Dempsey), a

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based manufacturer of medical test equipment, best known for being the original makers of the FitTester 3000 quantitative respirator fit test machine. Fluke subsequently placed DNI Nevada under the Fluke Biomedical brand, and moved manufacturing to its Everett headquarters in 2004.

Subsidiaries

Pomona Electronics

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s. the company started in a factory location around the size of a

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. By 1976, it was owned by

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, which in 1999 sold it to Fluke. In 2002, Pomona Electronics relocated its manufacturing facility to

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Gallery

Image:Fluke 115 multimeter.jpg, A Fluke 115 multimeter Image:Fluke 8010a.JPG, A Fluke 8010a bench multimeter Image:Fluke 45.jpg, A Fluke 45 Dual Display bench multimeter Image:Fluke 5500.jpg, A Fluke 5500 calibrator Image:Clampmeter Fluke 337.jpg, A Fluke 337 clamp multimeter Image:FLUKE networks IntelliTone Pro 200.JPG, The Fluke Networks IntelliTone Pro LAN probing kit Image:Banana plug adapter.JPG, Adapter between a female

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and banana plugs manufactured by Pomona. Image:Binding post adapter.JPG, Adapter between five-way binding posts and a male

manufactured by Pomona.

References

External links

Corporate web site

Fluke Networks website

Fluke Biomedical website

Fluke Calibration website
{{Authority control American companies established in 1948 Danaher subsidiaries Electronic test equipment manufacturers Companies based in Everett, Washington Electronics companies of the United States Manufacturing companies based in Washington (state) Electronics companies established in 1948 1948 establishments in Washington (state) 1998 mergers and acquisitions