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Show Home of Pump Inventor. Uagiieburs is ii,,. home city or iii'o von ;W, iii '.,. inventor of the sir pump one of the few original Inven funs that can be credited to Hermany despite the Germnn fostered Impres sum to the contrary Students of phys-cs phys-cs xs i : i recall a principle "f physics proved by what is often called the "Magdeburg experiment." Vi.n Ouer Icke is said to base demonstrated his llsc.iveiv of the possibilities ot tint vacuum to Ferdinand III by clamping together fWO parts I a copper sphere, from which the air was then exhausted exhaust-ed ami hitching Ifi horses to each hemisphere hem-isphere The story that the horses could not pull the hemispheres snarl tuny be an exaggerutiuQ, but the prlu- elpls is sound. |