I began my career is a "summer job" medical technologist in Chicago in 1967.
My first job was to install and operate an AA2, and a few years later we had
the SMA 6. All of the dates in the last few photo sets match exactly
when we installed this equipment in a suburban Chicago hospital.
I suspect that the fancy East Coast labs were ahead of us.

Unfortunately there are many parts of the world where this
type of pipetting is still a standard practice.....

Regards to all,

Steven R. Binder
Director, Technology Development
Clinical Diagnostics Group
Bio-Rad Laboratories
4000 Alfred Nobel Drive
Hercules CA 94547
Phone : 510-741-4603
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This is the North Middx lab in the early 1960s (I joined the lab in 1966 and it looked just like this, so suspect the picture was taken in 1965 soon after the AA1s came into use
The others - one is of me (oh! distant youth!) showing how we USED to measure things (1969) ....... and tea time (1968) in the days that we used to clear the specimen reception bench, boil the kettle on the gas ring and have tea ............. no H&S in those days!

How much better life seemed in those far-off days - no budget to worry about, certainly no managers or chief executives (just the hospital management committee), a busy day was 100 samples ... Time to retire!

Cathryn Corns
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These are two photos from the early 1970s.

TRT0002 was taken during the official opening, by HRH the Duchess of Kent, of new laboratories in Norwich on 22nd September 1971.

The instrument she is viewing is either Technicon SMA plus or a 6/60. Note the somewhat dated MSE bench centriguges which were the workhorses for separation in many labs at that time. They had no locks and were not sealed in case of breakage.

TRT0001 is a black and white photo of a 6/60 in use. Its components were the auto-sampler (being loaded), the main module, the flame photometer unit (in the corner and the recorder. I think the peristaltic pump can be seen just behind the back of the male operative who appears to be adjusting gain on an amplifier. Results came out in sets on the recorder paper. I have never worked with one but those who have may be able to give more detail. It is interesting to see the amount of glassware (particularly standard flasks) in the background illustrating that the clinical lab in those days made up most of its own standards so quite extensive chemical stores were the 'norm.' I think the transformer module in the background must have been to convert 240v to 110v since the analysed was made in the US.

Trevor Tickner,
Norwich

<<TRT0002.jpg>> <<TRT0001.jpg>>

P.S. The lab, like the hospital, lasted just over 30 years. We moved out in 2001!

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