
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