Pyrometric device
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Pyrometric devices gauge heatwork, the combined effect of both time and temperature, when firing materials inside a kiln. Pyrometric devices do not measure temperature, but can report temperature equi
Buller Rings that were placed at top and bottom of a kiln
Four Seger cones after use
Hermann Seger
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Hermann Seger was a German ceramicist who is widely credited with pioneering the development of the pyrometric cone, which enabled the rapid growth of the ceramic industry around the turn of the centu
Pyrometric device
…2). This led him to be elected a fellow of the Royal Society. The modern form of the pyrometric cone was developed by the German ceramics technologist Hermann Seger and first used to control the firing of porcelain at the Königliche Porzellanmanufaktur (Royal Porcelain Works) in Berlin, in 1886. Seger cones are…
A set of fired and unfired Seger cones