Guericke, Otto von (1602–1686)
German physicist credited with inventing the vacuum pump. His best-known experiment was with the Magdeburg hemispheres (1654): he evacuated a hollow sphere composed of two halves placed together, and showed that two 8-horse teams were insufficient to separate the halves. He also credited with inventing the first electric generator.
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