Robert Boyle — "I could not find in all the shops in London a glass bubble strong enough to resi…"
I could not find in all the shops in London a glass bubble strong enough to resist the pressure of the air when exhausted.
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Describing the challenges in his early experiments with the air pump.
Date: 1650s
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