Featured Supplier: Denoyer Geppert

For more than a century, Denoyer Geppert has been creating high-quality anatomical models for teaching and education. What makes Denoyer Geppert models different is the level of quality which is incorporated into every product. DG is passionate about anatomy, and even more passionate about quality and customer satisfaction. When a customer receives a DG model, they immediately recognize the effort applied to each product to make it special. every model is hand crafted and painted with the utmost care for detail and accuracy. Only the highest quality plastics, hardware, and paints are used to produce each model. When a DG product is completed, it is more than just a model, its a work of art. DG calls it "Autographed anatomy" signed by the artist who is responsible for hand painting your model.

DG products are perfect for teachers, educators, doctors, and medical professionals that want an accurate,durable, and reliable product. DG stands behind the craftsmanship of their products with a limited lifetime warranty!

The Heart of America continues to be the most widely used heart model in the world. The Giant Sarcomere has become a strong seller as its patented design represents the smallest functional unit of striated muscle is unlike anything else available.

From bio-mechanics kits to anatomy models to chart sets to raised relief classroom posters, few manufacturers offer the wide range or superior quality of Denoyer Geppert.

Please contact me for a catalog or if you'd like to become a distributor of DG products.

I'd be glad to help educators locate a dealer for any DG product they are looking for, please email at JGura@fischertech.com with any questions.

Still waiting for Spring to show up in Chicago.....

John Gura

Little Known Facts About Our Manufacturers

I thought it would be interesting to learn a few "out of the box" facts about our manufacturers. I'd love to hear your response!

Accurate Wirecraft: Did you know we've been working with Accurate Wirecraft for 20 years now and they are a woman owned business?

American Stirling: Did you know you can order the Stirling Engines direct from our stock at Fischer Technical?

Body Scientific: Did you know company president, Marcelo Oliver, is an accomplished and published medical illustrator?

Culture Media & Supplies: Did you know that CMS is a small, woman owned business and is soon going to launch a completely revamped website?

Denoyer Geppert: Did you know that Denoyer Geppert has been in business for over 100 years?

Feenixx Publishing: Did you know that all of Feenixx's posters are designed and printed in the USA?

Kerkau Mfg: Did you know that Kerkau Mfg moved into a brand new, state of the art facility a few years back?

Quincy Lab: Did you know that Quincy Lab still does all of their fabrication in the city of Chicago?

TrippNT: Have you ever thought of filling one of the TrippNT carts with lab supplies and offering classrooms to the chance to save money by sharing supplies....one of our distributors already has!

United Scientific: Did you know that United Scientific now offers a full line of Class A Glassware, Digital Bottle Top Dispeners, top quality lab coats, and tri pour beakers?

Fischer Technical Company: Did you know that Fischer Technical represents products that are made all over the world (3 continents) and our staff can speak Spanish, English, and German?

Now is a great time to add some of our products on your website. Contact me for pricing/images/literature/etc.

Safe travels!

John

Back from NSTA and Pittcon

It's safe to say that I've got a bit of "jet lag", albeit just the North American variety. In a 24 day period I went from:

Chicago to Puerto Vallarta
Puerto Vallarta to Chicago
Chicago to San Francisco
San Francisco to Denver
Denver to Chicago
Chicago to Atlanta
Atlanta to Chicago

Now that I've had a few days to clear my head from all of that, I thought I'd share my views of NSTA and Pittcon from last week.

NSTA was in San Francisco this week. This is a terrible idea. In times of budget cuts and overall cost cutting, there is no easier way to make sure that teachers from the east coast (note: most populous part of our country) don't get a chance to see what is new in the science education market than to put the yearly show in a very expensive and far out of the way city like San Francisco. Everything is overpriced and foot traffic at the show looked very light from my "eye test". I heard more than one vendor gripe about the cost and location and heard the show referred to as a "joke" more than once. As a manufacturer's representative, NSTA is invaluable to me as I get a chance to visit many of our distributors and see what our competitors are now offering. One of our European suppliers, NTL exhibited some very nice Physics Kits that we hope to bring to the North American Market very soon. My advice to distributors would be to strongly consider CAST in November as the foot traffic is much better, there is money in the Texas school budgets, and the booth costs are substantially lower. Frank Butcher does a fantastic job of organizing that show and we're proud to give him our support each year.

Pittcon was in Atlanta this year and I found the location and show to be terrific. While San Fran was prettier to look at, there were plenty of restaurants for all budgets nearby and plenty of close by hotels in downtown Atlanta. Foot traffic was very good and I heard many vendors mention that this was their best show in years. As always, the show is a great place to do business with South and Central America. I was able to have very positive and productive meetings with many of our distributors. This was the first year in a long time where I felt I could have used a third day at the show to cover everything I wanted to see. I'm looking forward to next year's show in Orlando as they also do a very good job.

Back on the road soon.....

John

The joy of demonstrating science

Recently, my two boys (age 5 and 6), came to my office to visit me. As a member of the science community, I was very excited to hear my oldest son tell me that they are learning about solids, liquids, and gasses in school. He smiled proudly when he told me that water will only turn to steam if it gets VERY HOT.

He was a bit disappointed when I told him that he was not quite correct, but asked me to prove it (great question from a future scientist???). We have a Fischer Technical Company LAV-3 High Vacuum pump hooked up to one of our pump plates in our warehouse. I asked him to put some water in a beaker and lets put it inside the bell jar and remove as much of the air inside the jar as we can. He watched the water boil once the jar reached high vacuum and told me that I was cheating as I put the water in some kind of oven.

We turned of the pump and he jumped back when I "accidentally" spilled the water on my hand immediately after I took the beaker off of the pump plate. When I showed him that the water was still room temperature, he was amazed!

The moral of this story is that even though a concept may be for a high school level student or higher, kids are never to young to be exposed to science. Their reactions will amaze you!

I hope to see many of you at NSTA and at Pittcon in the next couple of weeks!

John Gura