1854 – vacuum pump
In 1854, Heinrich Geissler invents the mercury vacuum pump, which leads to high quality vacuum tubes, which in turn leads the invention of the transistor.
Digg
StumbleUpon
Facebook
Twitter
Google Bookmarks
Add to favorites
RSSSolve the puzzle
3D printing AI Artificial Intelligence Asteroid Belt astronomy Attack Methodology Augmented Reality BioGenetics Computing Einstein energy Era - Ancient Era - Electronic Era - First Industrial Era - Renaissance era - second industrial Ethics fisma geometry group theory hacking History of Science and Technology InfoSec inspire Knowledge Engineering mathematics Maxwell Nanotechnology news NIST Computer Security Penetration penetration testing physics risk management Robotics Science science fiction SciFi security controls Singularity Space Space Exploration telescope Tools vulnerability
- Information Security
- Attack Methodology
- Attack vs Defense
- Attack vs Defense on an Organizational Scale
- Cloud Security
- News
- NIST Computer Security
- Tools
- Singularity
- Science
- History of Science and Technology
- History of Science and Technology – Era – Ancient
- History of Science and Technology – Era – Current
- History of Science and Technology – Era – Electronic
- History of Science and Technology – Era – First Industrial
- History of Science and Technology – Era – Middle Ages
- History of Science and Technology – Era – Prehistory
- History of Science and Technology – Era – Renaissance
- History of Science and Technology – Era – Roman
- History of Science and Technology – Era – Second Industrial
- Science Fiction
- Space
- History of Science and Technology
- About
[...] Geissler and Julius Plucker use Geisslers new vacuum pump to evacuate the atomosphere inside a glass tube. Plucker, a young professor at the University of [...]