1954 McPherson develops a vacuum grazing incidence spectrometer for Air Force Cambridge Research Lab and launches into space with an Aerobe rocket

1959 The First Seya Namioka spectrometer built by McPherson is introduced and installed at Naval Research Lab (NRL)

1964 Air Force Cambridge Research Lab receives a McPherson original 6.65-meter focal length normal incidence vacuum EAGLE spectrograph/spectrometer

1964 Naval Research Lab receives first McPherson 2.2-meter focal length laboratory grazing vacuum spectrometer

1965 National Bureau of Standards installs a McPherson 6.6 meter normal incidence monochromator for analysis of standard line measurements with high resolution

1965 McPherson installs several normal incidence and Seya type monochromators on the Wisconsin Synchrotron

1966 Rockefeller Institute receives Schoeffel's first mini-monochromator

1967 McPherson 1-meter normal incidence spectrometer is installed at India's atomic energy facility in Bombay

1967 National Bureau of Standards receives the first McPherson 10 meter focal length grazing vacuum spectrograph

1968 Wisconsin University receives the first Schoeffel mini-double Czerny-Turner monochromator

1969 UCLA receives 6 spectrometers for fusion diagnostics

1969 The first Schoeffel HPLC (high pressure liquid chromatography) prototype spectroflow monitor was introduced

1970 First ESCS 2.5 electron impact spectrometer installed at Bell Labs

1970 Naval Research Labs receives ESCA 36 electron impact spectrometer

1970 The ESCS 2.5, a McPherson design, receives IR (industrial Research) most significant product award

1970/71 Accelerator at MIT receives 2.2 meter soft X-ray spectrometer

1972 Bumpy Torus Oak Ridge receives 1 meter normal incidence X-ray spectrometer

1974 The Schoeffel SF770 spectroflow monitor wins an IR award of the year

1974 SLAC receives McPherson designed 1 meter Seya-Namioka spectrometer for the linear accelerator

1974 Desy Synchrotron in Germany receives 3 meter McPherson spectrometer

1976/77 Lawrence Livermore receives 225.3; high resolution normal incidence monochromator

1977 The Schoeffel FS970 fluorescence detector wins one of the year's outstanding product awards of IR

1978 McPherson installs 2 meter UHV normal incidence unit at SURF - the Synchrotron at National Bureau of Standards

1978 SLAC Stanford linear accelerator gets first McPherson grasshopper grazing spectrometer

1979 Los Alamos/Sandia and NRL receive theta pinch and laser oblation experiment diagnostics monochromator

1979 Hot fusion experimental reactor in Austin Texas is equipped with several McPherson spectral analyzers

1980 Daresbury Labs England receives a McPherson 5-meter UHV normal incidence monochromator

1981 The fusion reactor at Princeton University installs 3 McPherson flat field diagnostic spectrometers (SPRED's)

1984 The Italian fusion reactor at Frascati receives a McPherson 'swinging' diagnostic MCP and PDA equipped ultra high vacuum spectrometer (13 have since been supplied for major fusion experiments around the world)

1984/86 China research center receives McPherson's advanced 3-meter focal length normal incidence vacuum spectrometer, as well as 8 other instruments

1989 Max Planck Institute for Plasma Research in Germany receives two McPherson 2.2-meter grazing incidence diagnostic spectrometers which feature pivoting curved ways and dual MCPS

1992 Bessy Synchrotron in Germany (Berlin) receives McPherson's UHV Imeter focal length normal incidence spectrometer for standardizing detectors

1993 Synchrotron at Louisiana State University (CAMD) receives McPherson designed plane grating beam line monochromator (PGM)

1993 IBM (beam line 8) at Berkeley (Advanced Light Source) receives McPherson designed spherical grating monochromator (SGM)

1994 Berkeley (Advanced Light Source) receives 6.5-Meter Normal Incidence Eagle monochromator

1995 3-meter normal incidence monochromator (NIM) to POSTECH, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Korea

1995/96 Beam Line Systems and unique mirror manipulator chambers and water-cooled energy slits to NSLS Brookhaven National Laboratory.

1997/1998 SGM high energy variable entrance/exit slit systems to Storage Ring SSRC, Hsinchu, Taiwan

1999 Dual Beam, 115-380 nm, Vacuum Ultraviolet Test Station Introduced

2000 Hong Kong University receives fiber optic environmental test station

2000 350-mm Double Monochromators ship to standards facilities around the world

2001 McPherson ships the tenth vacuum UV spectrophotometer to lithography community