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Scientific American, Vol. 55, No. 1 (1886) (1886)

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erformed with an Italian opposite spathes, and six inches across the face in the Torricelli, Pascal, and Von Guericke did all the wine bottle from which the straw cover has been re- opposite direction. Although generally spoken of as fundamental work in pneumatics, and what has been moved. Itis an… … 25, 1886: lowest bid, $86,521 ; highest, $291,745, or 233 hors a vacuum.” Inspired _by this brilliant man, who per cent higher. was his master in science, Torricelli investigated the For iron work for Erie, Pa., court house, adver- subject, and invented the barometer. At about the tisement of…

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