Company History

Paul Beckman Company, Inc. (PBC) was founded in 1984 by Paul Beckman and three active investment partners. Previously, Mr. Beckman had been the president and founder of High Temperature Instruments Corporation (HTI) which gained renown for its innovations in instrumentation for hostile environments. The first of these was the HT "free-filament" strain gauge, still in use throughout the world, which was invented by Mr. Beckman in 1955 and patented by him in 1960.

HTI made numerous contributions to high-temperature and cryogenic measurement technology in its 15-year history, including several to the historic Apollo program in the 1960s. This work included instrumentation for Apollo's heat shield and rocket-engine development programs.

Mr. Beckman also invented the "Radially Activated Thermocouple" along with Robert P. Benedict. This innovation is described in Mr. Benedict's book, Fundamentals of Temperature, Pressure, and Flow Measurements (Wiley), an indispensible resource which is still in use as a college engineering text and a mainstay reference for engineers worldwide.

In 2000, Paul Beckman Company received NASA's "Turning Goals into Reality: Access to Space" Award for its work in providing temperature sensors to NASA's recent "SHARP" high temperature materials development program.

Corporate Information

Paul Beckman Company, Inc. is a privately owned Delaware Corporation operating in Huntingdon Valley, PA.