The burner is most commonly used to heat substances in a laboratory, can be used for sterilisation and sometimes it is used for soldering or glasswork.

[8] Teclu was born in Braşov, Romania on 7 October 1839 and graduated from high school in Vienna.

Other notable investigations Teclu was involved in were the burning process of combustible gases, the analysis of natural products and also studies on the composition of paper.

[7] Teclu was also constantly occupied with creating and investigating new and more advanced laboratory equipment.

He described the flame on the inside as very hot, with a green hue that points in a downward direction and is being supplied oxygen that is contained in the gaseous mixture.

He noted that the flame on the outside has a blue hue, points in an upward direction and is supplied with oxygen from its surroundings.

[7] A Teclu Burner that was manufactured in the 1960s is currently on display in the Gasworks Museum in Paczkow, Poland.

[5] Other early makes of the Teclu burner are displayed in the Science Museum in London.

Beryillum is moisture sensitive and so it is necessary to exclude the presence of water that might be still left on the surface of the glassware after cleaning them.

[12] The Teclu burner was used in an experiment investigating the effect of the process on the crucible swelling number of coal (CSN).

[13] The Teclu burner was also used in an experiment which aimed to investigate the spark formation from rare earth elements.

The powders containing the rare earth elements were passed into the centre of the gas flame produced by the Teclu burner and the sparks were then examined.

The respective developers Nicolae Teclu, a Romanian chemist, and Robert Bunsen, a German chemist, also differed in their educational backgrounds as Teclu specialised in engineering, architecture, and chemistry while Bunsen primarily studied chemistry, mineralogy, and mathematics.

The devices themselves differ in their abilities to accurately control the amounts of methane gas and air inputted into the tube therefore contributing to a hotter flame able to be achieved by the Teclu Burner.

This change in design also allows for greater mixing of methane gas and air which in turn produces higher temperatures as seen in the Teclu Burner.

There is an insulated hooked strip of metal attached to the base that functions as a holder for when the burner itself becomes too hot to handle.