When I moved to CSIRO Mineral Chemistry in Melbourne in mid-1977, I inherited a
non-working Philips PW1050 based lab-system which had been retrofitted with a
home-made stepping motor and controller. It must have been installed during
1975 or 1976 but it was either late 1977 or in 1978 that I got the system
working. This was about the time that I started my collaboration with Rod Hill
- we used the system (controlled via punch tape on a Teletype) to collect (i)
single peak data for QPA (esp. on magnesite ore deposits) and (ii) long range
step scan data.
The success of this bit of work enable us to justify the later purchase of a
commercial XRD controller (a Philips PW1710) in the early 1980s ??
Cheers
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Ian Madsen
Honorary Fellow
CSIRO Mineral Resources Flagship
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Victoria, AUSTRALIA
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Cline,
James Dr. [[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 2:47 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Automated XRD Date
Hi all,
Anyone know when/where the first automated powder diffractometer was
commissioned? I’m going to presume it was used with a non-laboratory source:
2nd, when/where was the first lab diffractometer commissioned?
Regards,
Jim
James P. Cline
Materials Measurement Science Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Dr. stop 8520 [ B113 / Bldg 217 ]
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8523 USA
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
(301) 975 5793
FAX (301) 975 5334
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