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Guericke
[gair-uh-kee, -kuh, gwair-, gy-
noun
Otto von 1602–86, German physicist.
Guericke
/ ˈɡːə /
noun
Otto von. 1602–86, German physicist: invented the air pump (1650) and demonstrated the power of a vacuum with the Magdeburg hemispheres
Example Sentences
“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.
It hosts the Otto von Guericke University and has space for a new plant in the Eulenberg industrial area in the southwest.
Whereas von Guericke’s pump needed two strong men to operate it, their design could be operated with reasonable ease by one man.
Schott reported not only Berti’s original experiments in Rome but also von Guericke’s construction of a vacuum pump.
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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