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Discovery of Atmospheric pressure

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      Bernard Nebel
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      We don’t feel the pressure of air on us because being surrounded by air it pushes on us equally in all directions. This includes air inside us pushing out as well as air outside us pushing in. The phenomenon of atmospheric air pressure was fist demonstrated by a scientist in 1671 as shown in the following video.

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