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Spectronics company history timeline

1955

1955 Spectronics is founded by Bill and Morris Cooper.

1957

1957 Spectronics is featured in an article about UV fluorescence in Popular Mechanics Magazine.

1959

1959 Spectronics wins a national design award for its Space Spider™ Geometrics Kit.

1959 Spectronics invents the world’s first black light counterfeit currency detector.

1960

1960 Life magazine publishes a story about Spectronics’ line of UV-fluorescent educational toys.

1960 Spectronics introduces the black light invisible signature verification system to the banking industry.

1969

1969 Spectronics is granted its very first United States Patent (for X-ray film cassettes).

1978

1978 Spectronics begins manufacturing UV EPROM erasing lamps.

1980

1980 Spectronics develops its first digital UV radiometer for Nondestructive Testing.

1981

1981 Spectronics begins manufacturing UV transilluminators for DNA research.

1986

1986 Spectronics manufactures its first high-volume UV wafer erasing system.

1989

1989 Spectronics introduces fluorescent leak detection to the HVAC/R industry.

1990

1990 Spectronics introduces its Spectrolinker™ UV crosslinkers to the biotechnology market.

1992

1992 Spectronics receives Plant Engineering magazine’s “Product of the Year Award” for its HVAC/R leak detection products.

1995

1995 Auto makers begin installing Spectronics’ fluorescent dye in their vehicles on the production line to locate A/C leaks.

1997

1997 Spectroline® UV lamps are utilized in an experiment on the United States Space Shuttle to observe how water acts under weightless conditions.

2001

2001 Spectroline® UV transilluminators and crosslinkers are used for research as part of the Human Genome Project.

2005

2005 Spectronics celebrates its 50th Anniversary.

2006

2006 Spectronics begins manufacturing the state-of-the-art Accumax™ Series Digital UV Radiometers.

2010

2010 Spectronics’ multi-led forensics light source become a standard crime scene investigation tool in a popular TV series.

2011

2011 Spectronics’ introduces ultra-high volume UV wafer erasing systems for the semiconductor industry.

2012

2012 Over 200 million vehicles worldwide now use fluorescent dyes made by Spectronics’ Tracer Products Division.

2013

2013 Spectronics is ranked as one of the largest manufacturing companies on Long Island.

2017

2017 Spectronics is granted a United States patent for its revolutionary Pipe Freezer technology, the fastest, safest and most effective method for forming freeze plugs in pipes.

2017 Spectronics introduces the powerful and long-lasting VIVID™ UV-A LED replacement bulbs for the NDT industry.

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1955
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