[MrFixr55]

I think that Danaher, the company that owns Beckman-Coulter (the company that I worked for 41 years) owns Fluke. They also own Tektronix. Back in the 1980s, Beckman Instruments manufactured a line of great DMMs that would run for a year on a carbon-zinc 9V battery. Due to our alignment with Smith Kline (at the time), they sold off all the non-medical divisions, including Helipot and the electronics division. (Dr. Beckman invented the Helipot and made a fortune off of it. Google Arnold O. Beckman, read the Wikipedia article on him, it is a very interesting read. He rubbed elbows with the likes of Frank Jewett of Bell Labs, Walter Shewhart, the 'father of statistical process control', Lee DeForrest and William Shockley. He died in 2004 at the age of 104.) In a strange twist of fate, Beckman replaced the meters that we Field Engineers were using with Flukes when we needed functions such as capacitance, frequency, duty cycle, etc. that our RMS3030s did not have. We were eventually bought by Danaher, who owns a bevy of companies including Fluke, Tektronix, Pall, and prior to a spinoff, owned Matco Tools, Easco Tools (the company that manufactured Craftsman and Husky hand tools), Jacobs Chucks, Jacobs Engine Brakes (The "Jake Brake" that you hear when an 18 Wheeler slows down) and other companies.