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equipment producing low air pressure

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sex toy
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Vacuum pumps
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Category:Vacuum pumps
time of discovery or invention
1650-00-00
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The Roots blower is one example of a vacuum pump

A vacuum pump is a type of pump device that draws gas particles from a sealed volume in order to leave behind a partial vacuum. The first vacuum pump was invented in 1650 by Otto von Guericke, and was preceded by the suction pump, which dates to antiquity.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “vacuum pump” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.