Technicon AutoAnalyzer
name: label: purchasing agent/middleman
content: Whitehead, John
label: maker
content: Technicon Instruments Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Leonard T. Skeggs, Jr. (1918-2002) graduated from Youngstown College, served with the U.S. Navy during World War II, earned a PhD in biochemistry at Western Reserve University and, while working in a clinical chemistry lab in the local VA Hospital, developed machines to automate blood analysis. With the encouragement of the Technicon Co., Dr. Skeggs developed a commercial model. This later example has several parts: recorder, colorimeter, heating bath, dialyzer, proportioning pump, sampler, and 4 brown glass reagent bottles. An inscription reads in part “TECHNICON CYBEX, INC. / ARDSLEY, NEW YORK / SERIAL NO. 2000(1).”
label: Description
content: Edwin Weiskopf (1893-1968) established Technicon in a Bronx office in 1939. By Dec. 1967, with the Autoanalyzer in hand, Technicon had relocated to Westchester County. Edwin C. Whitehead (1920-1992), son of the founder, took the firm public in 1969, and sold it to Revlon ten years later.
label: Description
content: Ref: “New Machine Replaces Blood Test Technician,” [Washington] Evening Star (May 15, 1957), p. B-17.
label: Description
content: “Machine to Speed Blood Typing Is Tested by the Red Cross Here,” New York Times (April 21, 1966), p. 41.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Edwin Weiskopf, 75, Founded Technicon,” New York Times (Feb. 9, 1968), p. 27.
label: Description
content: “Edwin C. Whitehead, 72, Dies; Financed Biomedical Research,” New York Times (Feb. 4, 1992), p. A18.
place: label: location of prior holder
content: United States: New York, Tarrytown
label: location of prior holder
content: United States: New York
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Technicon Instruments Corporation, Diagnostic Systems Division
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0608.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0608
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0608.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: blood analyzer, automated