Vacuum pump

Early modern · Energy · 1650

TL;DR

Vacuum pump - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Vacuum pump - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Air gun Suction pump Magnetism of the Earth

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Vacuum pump:

Magdeburg hemispheres Boyle's air pump Sprengel pump Artificial refrigeration

Independent Emergence

Evidence of inevitability—this invention emerged independently in multiple locations:

Holy Roman Empire

Parallel development

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Niche Construction Adaptive Radiation Convergent Evolution

Related Inventions

Artificial refrigeration Magnetism of the Earth Air gun Magdeburg hemispheres Suction pump Boyle's air pump Sprengel pump

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Physics

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