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May 9, 2024 · Otto von Guericke (born Nov. 20, 1602, Magdeburg, Prussian Saxony [now in Germany]—died May 11, 1686, Hamburg) was a German physicist, engineer, and natural philosopher who invented the first air pump and used it to study the phenomenon of vacuum and the role of air in combustion and respiration.
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Otto von Guericke (UK: / ˈ ɡ ɛər ɪ k ə / GAIR-ik-ə, US: / ˈ ɡ (w) ɛər ɪ k ə,-k i / G(W)AIR-ik-ə, -ee, German: [ˈɔtoː fɔn ˈɡeːʁɪkə] ⓘ; spelled Gericke until 1666; 30 November [O.S. 20 November] 1602 – 21 May [O.S. 11 May] 1686) was a German scientist, inventor, mathematician and physicist.
The Magdeburg hemispheres were invented by German scientist and mayor of Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke, to demonstrate the air pump that he had invented and the concept of atmospheric pressure. Speculation varied about the contents of the sphere.
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Oct 8, 2009 · In 1650, Otto von Guericke invented the air pump, used to create a partial vacuum. Using hollow copper spheres and an air pump of his own construction, Guericke demonstrated that a partial vacuum could be created by pumping the air out of the sphere.
Otto von Guericke. Lived 1602 – 1686. After surviving the worst massacre of the Thirty Years’ War, Otto von Guericke made several historic scientific discoveries. Self-funded, he invented the vacuum pump, pioneered the concept of the absolute vacuum of space, measured the weight of air and used air pressure to make weather forecasts.
The first rudimentary air pump—a sort of syringe—was developed c. 1650 by Otto von Guericke (1602-1686). He used it in his celebrated "Madgeburg hemispheres" experiment to demonstrate that two metal hemispheres, when joined together and evacuated, required the force of at least sixteen horses to be pulled apart.
The piston-type vacuum pump was invented by Otto von Guericke (1602-1686) in the course of a series of experiments on the production and effects of a vacuum. In his early experiments, ca. 1647, von Guericke produced a vacuum by using a suction pump to remove the water from a sealed wooden cask.
