Magdeburg

Examples

• This was about the time that Otto von Guericke of Magdeburg, Germany, was born. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Boyle, Otto Guericke, a burgomaster of Magdeburg, celebrated as the inventor of the airpump, Dr. Wall, and Sir Isaac Newton, added some facts. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Otto von Guericke, a burgomaster of Magdeburg, who had traveled in France and Italy, succeeded in constru cting an air-pump by means of which air might be exhausted from a vessel. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The original pump and the Magdeburg hemispheres are still preserved. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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