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  2. Robert F. Boyle - Wikipedia

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    Robert Francis Boyle (October 10, 1909 – August 1, 2010) [1] was an American film art director and production designer.He was nominated for four Academy Awards for North by Northwest (1959), Gaily, Gaily (1969), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), and The Shootist (1976), before winning the Honorary Academy Award in 2008.

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  5. History of decompression research and development - Wikipedia

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    This painting, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump by Joseph Wright of Derby, 1768, depicts an experiment originally performed by Robert Boyle in 1660. Decompression in the context of diving derives from the reduction in ambient pressure experienced by the diver during the ascent at the end of a dive or hyperbaric exposure and refers to both the reduction in pressure and the process of ...

  6. Robert Boyle - Wikipedia

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    Robert Boyle FRS [2] (/ b ɔɪ l /; 25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish [3] natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method.

  7. An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump - Wikipedia

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    The picture has been owned by the National Gallery in London since 1863 and is regarded as a masterpiece of British art. The painting depicts a natural philosopher, a forerunner of the modern scientist, recreating one of Robert Boyle's air pump experiments, in which a bird is deprived of air, before a varied group of onlookers. The group ...

  8. File:Portret van Robert Boyle, RP-P-OB-4578 (cropped).jpg

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    Titel(s): Portret van Robert Boyle Objecttype: prent boekillustratie Objectnummer: RP-P-OB-4578 Catalogusreferentie: LeBlanc 9 Opschriften / Merken: verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228 Omschrijving: Onderaan natuurkundige en scheikundige instrumenten en een luchtpomp met daarin een kat. Tekst in het Engels in de ondermarge. Vervaardiging

  9. Steam digester - Wikipedia

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    Robert Boyle and Denis Papin inspecting Papin's digester. The artificial vacuum was first produced in 1643 by Italian scientist Evangelista 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.