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Galileo Galilei
February 15 1564-January 8 1642
he was 78 when he passed away
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
he made a machine to pump water from a river for the irrigation of land. The pump was a syringe, Galileo found that 10 meters was the limit the water would rise in the suction pump, but had no explanation for this.
he made this in 1594
he was going blind closer to his death but continued to write. -
Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli
15 October 1608-25 October 1647 (aged 39)
he was the first scientist to discover the workings of a barometer and made it by putting murcury into a tube and he realised that the atmospheric pressure affected the pressure of the tube and affecting the murcury.
http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinventors/a/Barometer.htm -
Pascal
Blaise Pascal
19 June 1623-19 August 1662 (aged 39)
he created the hydraulic press
he had an intense religious vision and wrote it down and carried it with him everywhere -
Von Guericke
Otto von Guericke
November 20, 1602-May 11, 1686 (aged 83)
he created vaccums and did demontrations on air pressure. he made a vaccum with a piston and flaps he also demonstrated with 2 copper balls -
Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
April 14, 1629-July 8, 1695 (aged 66)
created the engine using gun powder to lift the pistons -
Dalton
John Dalton
6 September 1766-27 July 1844 (aged 77)
he was color blind
In 1803 he revealed the concept of Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures -
Avogadro
Amedeo Avogadro
9 August 1776-9 July 1856 (aged 79)
equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules regardless of their chemical nature and physical properties
