Beevers explored the structure of the crystal Beta Alumina with Marion Ross at Manchester.

Subsequently, the presence of these ions was discovered to make this crystal an efficient fast-ion conductor.

[6] Beevers developed Beevers–Lipson strips with Henry Lipson CBE FRS (1910–1991), Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (England).

[3] The approach converted the large calculations of multi-dimensional Fourier summations needed in crystallography analysis into sums of more manageable one-dimensional values.

The folded card strips with numbers were stored in normally wooden boxes,[7] one for sines and one for cosines.