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You can change your cookie settings at any time. To learn more, please review our cookie policy , which includes information on how to manage your cookies. Detect and identify disease, contaminants and biological pathways. Since light waves, shorter and with higher frequency than microwaves, can be concentrated into narrower beams and operate at higher speed, the technology quickly centered on the optical maser version, that is, light beams.
It was not long before "l" for light replaced the "m" and the term became laser. Most of Perkin-Elmer's laser work in the s was in defense and space applications. One triumph came in when the Apollo 11 astronauts, their helmet visors protected by a Perkin-Elmer coating, deployed Perkin-Elmer laser retroreflectors on the moon's surface; shooting beams from earth at these reflectors later permitted extremely accurate distance measurements. During the s, the company made some acquisitions supplementing internal expansion of its instrument line.
Then, in the s, in line with a trend in American corporate culture, Perkin-Elmer undertook a number of ambitious diversification moves. After acquiring the corporation, Perkin-Elmer opted to lowercase the name to "Metco. The improved surface provided by such spraying can permit the use of less expensive materials in all sorts of machinery and engine components.
Also during this time, Perkin-Elmer sought to take advantage of the transistor boom by entering the semiconductor equipment business. In it introduced the Micralign projection mask aligner, designed to facilitate the production of semiconductors. The company entered yet another popular field the following year, acquiring Interdata, Inc.
While building up its presence in these new areas, Perkin-Elmer also continued to enhance its analytical instrumentation and optical lines. This particular project proved to be a mixed blessing. Even so, it has been able to send back, as the New York Times put it, "valuable pictures of the near and far heavens. In the instrumentation area, Perkin-Elmer began to introduce increasingly computerized equipment.
For instance, in it brought out an infrared spectrometer controlled by a microprocessor; a decade later, the company offered augmented automation by use of robotics. Meanwhile, in Perkin-Elmer had further broadened its product base through the acquisition of Physical Electronics Industries, which specialized in surface science analytical instruments used to examine the chemical composition and bonding of the first few atomic layers of a surface.
Later, the company began to explore biotechnology instrumentation. By the latter part of the s, Perkin-Elmer determined that massive diversification no longer paid off. Again like so many other corporations, it entered a series of divestitures and restructurings.
Even as it proudly celebrated the 50th anniversary of Perkin-Elmer's start as a partnership, management bluntly told stockholders in the annual report that in this "watershed year We recognized that markets for high technology goods This first stage of restructuring consisted mainly of dropping unprofitable product lines, consolidating plants, and streamlining sales and service operations, as well as scaling back their workforce by 6 percent.
The company maintained its six basic business lines: analytical instruments, semiconductor equipment, optical systems, materials and surface technology, minicomputers, and the German manufacturing unit called Bodenseewerk Geraetetechnik BGT , which specialized in missile and other avionic systems for the United States as well as the German government.
By the end of the year an agreement had been reached to withdraw from the computer business. Back in , Perkin-Elmer had put its computer business into a new subsidiary called Concurrent Computer Corporation and had sold an 18 percent stake to the public.
The company arranged to sell its remaining 82 percent interest to Massachusetts Computer Corporation. The sale was completed early in fiscal , with Perkin-Elmer realizing a moderate profit on the transaction. As fiscal progressed, management decided on a far more drastic restructuring, dropping three more major business segments and leaving a company centered on just two basic fields: analytical instruments and material sciences. With the option to customize your experience with a wide range of detectors and accessories, each LC Laboratory Services.
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