Charles Beseler Company dates back to 1868 when it was founded by Charles Beseler, who was both a comtemporary and competitor of Thomas Edison. At the turn of the last century, the Company was manufactoring a variety of insturments for medical and institutional applications. The range of products included inhalers, laryngoscopes, Magic Lanterns, museum stereopticons, and institute dissolving stereopticons.

In the late 1800s an investor and inventor, F.Schwanhausser, joined the company and in the late 1940's expanded the Company's product lines into the audio-visual markets, serving primarily military and educational concerns.

Beseler's contributions to the field of photography are legend. In 1953, the Company entered the professional and amateur photographic fields. It was then that the 45 series enlarger was born, and other darkroom products were developed.

To this day, Beseler's photographic equipment offers uncompromising preformance, precision and versality designed and contructed for years of daily use. The Company remains committed to the photographic industry today, as it was then.

Beseler's equipment continues to be made in America. And we continue to work for quality, reliability and innovation.