ANACVTICAL C HE "IIS T R'Y
EDITORIAL
June 1963, Vol. 35, No. 7
ANALYTICAL
CHEMISTRY
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Multipurpose Design in Instrumentation
THE
DEVELOPMENT of instruments especially in the field of spectrometry has revolved around a rather selected part of the spectrum. Thus, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, and far infrared have existed in terms of separate instruments. Such a division has been dictated by the personal interest of the scientist in one area of the spectrum and also because of inherent design limitation in such instruments. With the development of more sophisticated components and a desire for quick scanning of the spectrum, there have appeared recently instruments combining greater portions of the spectrum. Undoubtedly we are going to witness more development of multipurpose instruments because they give faster answers and are more versatile. They will cost more but such cost need not be prohibitive. There is a growing philosophy in instrumentation of designing for greater flexibility so that when the nature of problems changes, the instrument can be adapted to other problems. This building block viewpoint requires some rather shrewd analysis of basic components and a system whereby they may be arranged. Space age electronics has made important contributions in this area. This development seems as fundamental as that which took place when manual plotting was replaced by automatic recording instruments.
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