Abstract

In a review of the authors about the history of vacuum microbalance techniques (including a chronology in table form), also published in Thermochimica Acta, (ref. 1) it uas pointed out, that also some corrections are to be made on the history of therinogravimetry. The first findings of balances are dated to about 3000 B.C. A gravimetric hygrometer is mentioned by Nicolaus Cusanus in 1450. In the 19th century chemical reactions at variable temperatures uere investigated using balances. The very beginning of the thermogravinietry is antedated to the work of Talabot who in 1833 at Lyon equipped a laboratory with thermobalances for quality control of Chinese silk.

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