Magdeburg vacuum experiment. Illustration of an experiment carried out in the 1650s in Magdeburg by German engineer and physicist Otto von Guericke (1
Magdeburg vacuum experiment. Illustration of an experiment carried out in the 1650s in Magdeburg by German engineer and physicist Otto von Guericke (1602-1686). This demonstration of atmospheric pressure placed two brass hemispheres together with the air pumped out from between them, forming a vacuum. The external atmospheric pressure forcing the hemispheres together was so strong that numerous heavy weights could pull them apart. Artwork from 'Chaudieres et Machines a Vapeur' (1911) by French civil engineer Max de Nansouty (1854-1913), part of the 'Les merveilles de la science' series of 1867-1891 by Louis Figuier.
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