Technology background

PH Meter

  • An electric device used to measure acidity or alkalinity in solution.
Technology background

HISTORY

In 1934, Arnold Beckman created the first pH meter. Before that, in 1906, Fritz Haber and Zygmunt Klemensiewicz made glass pH electrodes, but using them was tricky. Beckman's pH meter, a forerunner to Model G, made it easier to measure pH on a larger scale.