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Under vacuum
In 1654 when the mayor of Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke, conducted an impressive experiment for curious observers they were astounded: Using two hemispheres which could be joined with an airtight seal, as well as a valve and an air pump, he generated a vacuum so strong that two teams of eight horses each were not able to separate the hemispheres.
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