Robert Bunsen is most famous for inventing the Bunsen burner, which he technically did not invent. What he’s not famous for is much more interesting. His most altruistic research, which has ...

And the same thing with the Bunsen burner was a very neat guy named Peter Desaga. And this - he toyed with the length of the tube and the width of the tube so that created a colorless, sootless flame.

Anyone who has walked in to a high school science classroom across the globe remembers the first time they saw a Bunsen burner – one of the first awestruck moments of our youth – the stuff of every ...

THE Bunsen burner is one of those simple and ingenious contrivances that could only have emanated from the brain of a practical genius. Unlike some of his successors to-day, Bunsen was never a ...

This is an outline of the required steps to undertake one of these methods. It is important in this practical activity to safely use a Bunsen burner and a water bath.

The Bunsen burner is still ‘one of the most valuable inventions ever made’ as an obituary of its inventor claimed in 1899. File photograph: Ian Logan/Stone/Getty . Juliana Adelman.