Republicans can rightly make the argument that New Jersey Democrats should have known what they were getting when they renominated Torricelli. |
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In Italy, Torricelli did research which led to developing the barometer and the measure of air pressure. |
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Torricelli constructed a sealed tube filled with mercury, set vertically into a basin of the same substance. |
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Evangelista Torricelli, the inventor of barometer, made various advances in optics and work on the method of indivisibles. |
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The first instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure was the mercury barometer, invented in 1643 by Italian physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli. |
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