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WE regret to see announced in the Chemical Age the death on December 19 last, at the age of seventy-three years, of MR. HENRY ROWLATT AUGUSTUS OERTLING. Mr. Oertling was educated at University College, London, and as a young man entered the balance-making business founded by his father. For more than forty years he took an active interest in the management of the firm, and it was under his supervision and to his design that the short-beam Oertling balance was made. Other types of balance were also developed, and for many years balances suitable for educational purposes, as well as those necessary for scientific work requiring the highest accuracy, have been manufactured so successfully by the firm that the name of Messrs. L. Oertling, Ltd., is now well-known in scientific institutions throughout the world.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 108, 575 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108575a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/108575a0