Word: torricelli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...illustrate the emergence of modern concepts through revised experimental methods, President Conant traced for his audience, by means of lantern slides, the seventeenth-century development of the air pump by Torricelli, von Guericke, and Boyle. The perfection of this simple mechanism resulted in a complete revision of the traditional concepts of atmosphere as a vacuum to the modern one of a weighable and elastic entity...
...private collection for the boy. The chief chemist of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.'s Argentine branch examined Jorge, found he has the chemical background of a college sophomore. A charming, volatile lad, Jorge can rattle off the laws of Faraday, Gay-Lussac, Pascal, Torricelli faster than most scholars twice his age can follow. Last week Santa Fé's Parliament debated the question of appropriating 50,000 pesos to continue his education, decided to turn the case over to a Senate committee for further study...