Who was the Bunsen burner invented by?

Answer 1

A common misconception is that the Bunsen burner was invented by German chemist Robert Wilhelm Bunsen. Although it is named after him, it is actually an improvement made in 1855 by his laboratory assistant, Peter Desaga, on an earlier design by Michael Faraday. The improvement is called a Tirrel Burner. The main diffrences between these burners is the gas control valve on a Tirrel Burner and the improved structure of the Tirrel Burner. Most Bunsen burners are in fact Tirrel Burners.

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Answer 2

Who Invented The Bunsen Burner

Answer 3

Peter Desaga

Instrument maker at the University of Heidelberg, who worked with Robert Wilhelm Bunsen. In 1855, Desaga perfected an earlier design of the laboratory burner by Michael Faraday into the "Bunsen burner". The Desaga family held the right to market the burner for generations, as part of an agreement made with Bunsen. The Bunsen burner was essential to the invention of the spectroscope by Robert Wilhelm Bunsen and Gustav Robert Georg Kirchhoff.

Answer 4

.A common misconception is that the Bunsen burner was invented by German chemist Robert Wilhelm Bunsen. Although it is named after him, it is actually an improvement made in 1855 by his laboratory assistant, Peter Desaga, on an earlier design by Michael Faraday. The improvement is called a Tirrill Burner. The main differences between these burners is the gas control valve on a Tirrill Burner and the improved structure of the Tirrill Burner. Most Bunsen burners are in fact Terrill Burners.

Answer 5

The Bunsen burner was invented in Germany in 1855 by German chemist Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811-1899).

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Who was the Bunsen burner invented by?

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Robert Wilhelm Bunsen 1811-1899

The inventor of the Bunsen burner, Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, died 100 years ago this year. Robert Bunsen was born in Gottinggen, Germany where his father was Librarian and Professor Linguistics. In 1830, at the age of 19, Bunsen had achieved a PhD at the university in Gottinggen and set off to study in Paris, Berlin and Vienna. After a short period teaching in Kassel he became Professor of Chemistry at Marburg. Here he experimented with organic arsenic compounds which were foul-smelling, toxic and spontaneously flammable. There were frequent accidents, one of which cost him the sight in one eye, and he nearly died of arsenic poisoning. It is perhaps not surprising that Bunsen gave up research in organic chemistry and even banned his students from studying it.
A coal gas supply arrived at Heidelberg in 1853 and it was then that Bunsen developed an idea of Michael Faraday’s and designed a burner that gave a colourless flame by mixing air with the gas at the bottom of a chimney. Bunsen’s technician, Peter Desaga worked out the mechanical details and built the burners, supplying them to all quarters of the chemical world. The rotating collar was a later addition

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Mr. Bunsen

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bunsen's assistant