Two views (dismantled and actual) of a Victorian British air pump. Otto von Guericke invented the spool vacuum air pump In 1649, in the UK Robert Hooke constructed a scientific air pump for Robert Boyle; it was followed in 1705 by the development of a double-barrelled air pump constructed by English scientist Francis Hauksbee with the capacity to create a vacuum

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