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Boyle's air pump
An air pump designed and built by Robert Hooke for Robert Boyle around 1659, creating an artificial vacuum in a glass vessel for controlled experimen…
Timeline
- 1660–1662London · EnglandBoyle used the air pump to publicly demonstrate combustion, sound propagation, and animal respiration in a vacuum at the Royal Society, publishing New Experiments Physico-Mechanical in 1660 and establishing the paradigm of pneumatic experimentation.
- 1662–1670Europe · EuropeBoyle used the air pump to quantitatively study the relationship between gas pressure and volume, and promoted the copying of vacuum pump devices in laboratories across Europe; together with experiments such as the Magdeburg hemispheres, these shaped modern vacuum physics.
Sources
- New Experiments Physico-Mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air — Robert Boyle (1660) https://archive.org/details/newexperimentsph00boyl
- Robert Boyle (2020) https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/boyle/