Copies of large Magdeburg hemispheres

Made:
1660 (original); 1876 (copy) in Regensburg and Birmingham
inventor:
Otto von Guericke

Copy of a pair of large Magdeburg hemispheres used by Otto von Guericke. The originals were exhibited in the Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus of 1876

Details

Category:
Vacuum Technology
Object Number:
1877-3
type:
magdeburg hemispheres and replica
credit:
Purchased, Elkington and Company