Paul Bunge
Paul Bunge is credited as the inventor of the short-beam analytical balance in 1866. The eponymous :de:Paul-Bunge-Preis|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. It was :de:Florenz Sartorius|Florenz Sartorius who from 1870 started the mass production of the scientific balances in his business in Göttingen.
