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- The Magdeburg hemispheres were a pair of large copper hemispheres with mating rims. When the rims were sealed with grease and the air was pumped out, the sphere contained a vacuum and could not be pulled apart by teams of horses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/magdeburg_hemispheres 11 comments history
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