| Abstract: | The history of vacuum technology is more than 2000 years old. Over the past 400 years scientists, engineers and inventors such as Torricelli, Pascal, von Guericke and Gaede have been engaged in vacuum technology. Vacuum has become an essential instrument in science and technology and many processes could not exist without it. Furthermore vacuum technology has been developed as an individual industrially applied technology. The article describes the development of vacuum technology from ancient philosophical speculations about the mercurial glass pipe to the modern diffusion pump. |
