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Boyle Revolutionary



Boyle, after learning the designs of Otto von Guericke, built the air pump with the assistance of Robert Hooke. With this revolutionary invention Boyle derived the inverse volume and pressure law. Using this new law Gay-Lussac derived the ideal gas law, which is a derivative of Boyle's law. Later an associate of Boyle, Denis Papin, created a tight fitting, closed lid bone digester. Eventually Papin conceived the idea of the piston and cylinder engine.



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