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This page features
Pioneers of Instrumentation born in October. The pictures are thumbnails,
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Other important events in October: Siemens founded: October 12, 1847
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Evangelista Torricelli (1608 – 1647) is best known for inventing the barometer. His invention came as a way to solve a practical problem of getting water to rise above 10 meters, using a suction pump. Torricelli created a tube filled with mercury, and the mercury column fell to about 28 inches. The height of the column rose and fell with changing atmospheric pressure. This invention was the first barometer. A unit of pressure, the torr, was named after Torricelli. Birthday: October 15, 1608
Sir James Chadwick, (1891 – 1974) was an English Nobel laureate in physics awarded for his discovery of the neutron.
Birthday: October 20, 1891
Wilhelm Eduard Weber (1804 – 1891) was a German physicist. During his years as professor at the University of Gottingen, he worked with Carl Friedrich Gauss. Together, they invented the first electromagnetic telegraph. Birthday: October 24, 1804
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