Guericke

American  

[gair-uh-kee, -kuh, gwair-, gy-ri-kuh] / ˈgɛər ə ki, -kə, ˈgwɛər-, ˈgü rɪ kə /

noun

1. Otto von 1602–86, German physicist.

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Guericke British  

/ ˈɡeːrikə /

noun

1. Otto von. 1602–86, German physicist: invented the air pump (1650) and demonstrated the power of a vacuum with the Magdeburg hemispheres

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Example Sentences

“It is just too hard to believe” at first, says Sabel of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and editor-in-chief of Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience.

From Science Magazine

It hosts the Otto von Guericke University and has space for a new plant in the Eulenberg industrial area in the southwest.

From Reuters

Whereas von Guericke’s pump needed two strong men to operate it, their design could be operated with reasonable ease by one man.

From Literature

Von Guericke had shown that, if one pumped the air out of a cylinder, the pressure of the atmosphere would drive a piston down in the cylinder and the force would be such that even a team of strong men would be unable to resist it.

From Literature

First, though the idea of using a cylinder and piston went back to Guericke, there was no recent experience of combining this with steam in England.

From Literature