Talk:Luer Taper

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[edit] Hermann Wülfing Luer

There are a number of references on the Web to "Otto Luer" being the inventor or namesake of the Luer Taper. This is almost certainly incorrect. There was a German architect by the name of Otto Lüer (1865-1947), but he was not involved in medical instrument design. The German Wikipedia article mentions Hermann Wülfing Luer as the inventor of the Luer Taper in the Luer Lock (sic) article, but incorrectly lists his date of death in Paris as 1883. Hermann Wülfing Luer was German and he apparently did live in France at one time. Some of the critical parts of the Luer Taper invention were apparently made around 1896, some 13 years after the purported death date. —Quicksilver^{T @} 06:19, 10 May 2008 (UTC)