In the early 19th century, as a result of the Continental System, the Bavarian workshops achieved global leadership in high quality optical-mechanical instrument-making thanks to the work of Joseph von Fraunhofer and his successors like Merz. The Merz Company was an extremely successful organization during the more than 100 years that they existed. Their impressive market areas characterize Merz as one of the early global players in the field of scientific instruments, especially in building of optical-mechanical instruments of high precision. Its influence on scientific instrument-making by far exceeded Fraunhofer’s work.
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