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About Peter Desaga
- Peter Desaga was a German 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. Peter Desaga's son, Carl Desaga, founded C.
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