<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"> <dc:description>In his youth learned a technical trade (specialisation unknown) and aquired a good knowledge of engineering; since 1859 was registered in Hamburg as a mechanic; 1866 established a workshop of precision mechanics in Hamburg, where he built a new type of high precision balances; invented the short-beam analytical balance, a construction which was adopted by many other manufacturers worldwide; 1870 described the assay balance which was of great influence on the construction of the analytical organic chemists' microbalance; 1876 presented some of his precision balances at the exhibition of scientific instruments, London; 1884 published Beschreibung der Präcisionswaagen neuester Originalconstruction nebst Constructionsmotiven in Hamburg; about 1885 lost his eyesight; 1886 abandoned his workshop and sold it to Theodor Herzberg.</dc:description> <dc:identifier>https://vlp-new.ur.de/people/per693</dc:identifier> <dc:identifier>http://d-nb.info/gnd/1229208976</dc:identifier> <dc:identifier>oai:vlp-new.ur.de:per693</dc:identifier> <dc:relation>https://vlp-new.ur.de/records/lit25425</dc:relation> <dc:relation>https://vlp-new.ur.de/records/lit38189</dc:relation> <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights> <dc:rights>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</dc:rights> <dc:title>Bunge, Paul</dc:title> </oai_dc:dc>