Burger-Exhibition

Reinhold Burger was born here in the workers’ colony on January 12th 1866, during the golden age of the Baruth Glassworks. His father was a glassblower and his grandfather was a glass cutter.   Burger was educated at the local school and began work as a child, carrying freshly blown articles to the annealing kiln for a year. At the age of 14 he began an apprenticeship at Giessler, a scientific glassblowing company in Berlin, producing gas-filled tubes and other items of laboratory equipment. At Siemens he broadened his knowledge of glass vacuum vessels and refined the design of X-ray tubes. Before his 30th birthday Burger founded his own company and in 1903 patented the first commercially viable vacuum flask. While his “Thermos” flask has gone on to become an indispensable everyday object, his pioneering work on X-ray technology is perhaps of even greater importance. Without the glassblower’s skills and knowledge, says Udo Radke, a vacuum tube historian, the successful application of X-ray technology would have been impossible.

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The Burger-Exhibition is part of our Exhibition package and a ticket is included within the normal museum ticket.