Book, Taschenbuch fur die anorganisch-chemische Grossindustrie
date: label: date made
content: 1907
name: label: maker
content: Lunge, Georg
label: maker
content: Berl, Ernst
notes: label: Description
content: Some books of tables gave information on scientific topics. This volume was the fourth edition of a book originally entitled <I>Taschenbuch für die Soda-, Pottasche- und Ammoniak-Fabrikation</I> and authored by Georg Runge of the technical university in Zurich. In this fourth edition, Austrian-born chemical engineer Ernst Berl (1877-1946), who had a junior position at the institution, joined Runge as a coauthor. The book gives diverse information about the chemical properties of inorganic compounds. Berl, who was of Jewish ancestry, would be expelled from a position at the Technical University in Darmstadt by the Nazi government of Germany and come to the United States in 1933. He joined the faculty of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University).
label: Description
content: The term ”taschenbuch” means pocketbook or paperback and this copy is taped together but unbound. This example of Lunge and Berl’s tables was owned by the German- American statistician, mathematician and computer pioneer Carl Hammer (1914-2004).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Switzerland: Zürich, Zurich
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Mathematical Charts and Tables
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Carl Hammer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3105.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 1988.3105
label: catalog number
content: 1988.3105.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x 11.5 cm x 17.4 cm; 25/32 in x 4 17/32 in x 6 27/32 in