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Guericke

[gair-uh-kee, -kuh, gwair-, gy-ri-kuh]

noun

  1. Otto von 1602–86, German physicist.



Guericke

/ ˈɡːə /

noun

  1. Otto von. 1602–86, German physicist: invented the air pump (1650) and demonstrated the power of a vacuum with the Magdeburg hemispheres

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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“It is just too hard to believe” at first, says Sabel of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and editor-in-chief of Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience.

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It hosts the Otto von Guericke University and has space for a new plant in the Eulenberg industrial area in the southwest.

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Whereas von Guericke’s pump needed two strong men to operate it, their design could be operated with reasonable ease by one man.

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Schott reported not only Berti’s original experiments in Rome but also von Guericke’s construction of a vacuum pump.

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In 1654 in Regensburg, and then again in 1656 in Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke evacuated the air from a copper sphere with an air pump.

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