Guericke

“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.

Von Guericke had demonstrated how two hemispheres from which the air had been extracted were held so tightly together by air pressure that teams of horses could not pull them apart.

First, though the idea of using a cylinder and piston went back to Guericke, there was no recent experience of combining this with steam in England.