Cary Instruments was founded in 1946 by

Howard Cary Henry Cary (3 May 1908 – 20 December 1991) was an American engineer and the co-founder of the Applied Physics Corporation (later known as Cary Instruments), along with George W. Downs and William Miller. The Cary 14 UV-Vis-NIR and the Cary M ...

, 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

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), where he had worked on the development of the DU line of UV/Vis

Spectrophotometers Spectrophotometry is a branch of electromagnetic spectroscopy concerned with the quantitative measurement of the reflection or transmission properties of a material as a function of wavelength. Spectrophotometry uses photometers, known as spec ...

. 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 Varian Associates was one of the first high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1948 by Russell H. and Sigurd F. Varian, William Webster Hansen, and Edward Ginzton to sell the klystron, the first vacuum tube which could amplif ...

, at which time it became known as the Cary Instruments division. In 1982 the Cary division was merged with the

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division of Varian and moved to Melbourne Australia. The Cary brand is still retained to the present day for UV/Vis

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s and FTIR spectrometers, even after the acquisition of

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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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