Paul Bunge (c. 1839–1888) is credited as the inventor of the short-beam analytical balance in 1866.
[1][2] The eponymous Paul Bunge Prize 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 Hamburg.
[3] It was Florenz Sartorius who from 1870 started the mass production of the scientific balances in his business in Göttingen.
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