Otto von guericke biography

Otto von Guericke (originally spelled Gericke) (November 20, 1602 – May 11, 1686 (Julian calendar); November 30, 1602 – May 21, 1686 (Gregorian calendar)) was a German scientist, inventor, and politician.

His major scientific achievement was the establishment of the physics of vacuums.

Biography

Guericke was born in Magdeburg, Germany. He was the mayor of Magdeburg from 1646 to 1676. He was a very noble man, and was given the title of Sir when the late king daubed him.

Air pressure and the vacuum

In 1650 he invented a vacuum pump consisting of a piston and cylinder with one-way flaps designed to pull air out of whatever vessel it was connected to, and used it to investigate the properties of the vacuum in many experiments.

Otto von guericke generator

Guericke demonstrated the force of air pressure with dramatic experiments. He had joined two copper hemispheres of 51 cm diameter (Magdeburg hemispheres) and pumped the air out of the enclosure. Then he harnessed a t