| 1874 | First spectrometer worldwide, manufactured on scientific principles was established by Ernst Abbe
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| 1924 | First Pulfrich photometer — laying the foundation for the development of spectral photometry in Jena
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| 1937 | Photometry method was developed by Carl Zeiss, first flame photometer
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| 1945 | Manufacture of the first instruments, representing the start of today`s titration technique and elemental analysis
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| 1952 | Electrolytic unit for coulometric measurement mass analysis
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| 1963 | First SPECORD® and SPEKOL®, since then more than 150.000 have been sold worldwide
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| 1971 | First AAS instrument by Carl Zeiss technology
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| 1982 | First simultaneously measuring UV VIS spectrometer with Multi Channel System. Launch of the first nitrogen and chloride titrator
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| 1991 | First simultaneous elemental analyser and special TOC/ TN and AOX analysers multi X® — first AOX/TOX analyser with automatic sampling system
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| 1993 | Introduction of the first Zeiss-AAS praphite sytem with transverse-heated graphite furnace
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| 1994 | multi N/C® — first simultaneous TOC/TN analyser worldwide
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| 1997 | First fully automated solid sampling system in AA
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| 2000 | AAS ZEEnit® — first transverse-heated Zeeman graphite furnace with variable magnetic field and 3-field mode
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| 2002 | Double furnace — first innovative concept for combustion analyses of a range of matrices
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| 2003 | Performence of the first multi EA® with flame sensor.
SPECORD® 600 — first high speed photometer with 50 cell changer and Diode Array Detector
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| 2004 | rapid PCR — new standard of speed and quality of thermal cycler
First high resolution continuum source AAS worldwide — contrAA®
multi N/C® — introduction of the new TOC/TN analyzers with Self Check System (SCS)
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