Steam digester Torricelli and further developed by German scientist Otto von Guericke with his Magdeburg hemispheres. Guerike's demonstration was documented by Gaspar Schott, in a book that was read by Robert Boyle. Boyle and his assistant Robert Hooke improved Guericke's air pump design and built their own. From this, through various experiments, they formulated what is called Boyle's law, which states that the volume of a body of an ideal gas is inversely proportional to its pressure. Soon the ideal gas law was formulated. Based on these concepts in 1679 a Boyle's associate, named Denis Papin, built a "bone digester", which is
Gas the volume is doubled, the pressure is halved. Given the inverse relationship between pressure and volume, the product of pressure ("P") and volume ("V") is a constant ("k") for a given mass of confined gas as long as the temperature is constant. Stated as a formula, thus is: Because the before and after volumes and pressures of the fixed amount of gas, where the before and after temperatures are the same both equal the constant "k", they can be related by the equation: formula_5 In 1787, the French physicist and balloon pioneer, Jacques Charles, found that oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, carbon