An instrument has been developed which permits the automatic quantitation of the turbidities of microbiological assay samples. Assay tubes were fed to the instrument at the end of the incubation period. The turbidity readings were automatically converted to digital data which were printed on International Business Machines (IBM) cards and from which potencies were calculated by an IBM computer. The instrument operated at a speed of over 240 tube readings per hour and was totally automatic in sample-mixing, readout, and data recording. The instrument is being used routinely at The Upjohn Co. for the turbidimetric bioassay of vitamins, with a coefficient of variation among repeated turbidity readings of 0.12 to 0.23%.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.