Paul Bunge (1839–1888) is credited as the inventor of the short-beam

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in 1866. The eponymous

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is awarded each year for outstanding publications in the history of scientific instruments. Though short-beam balances were in use before 1866, Bunge was the first engineer to document a theory for their operation and started manufacturing the balances in

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. It was Florenz Sartorius who from 1870 started the mass production of the scientific balances in his business in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bunge, Paul 19th-century German inventors 1839 births 1888 deaths Engineers from Hamburg German mechanical engineers