Torricelli

=**__//Evangelista Torricelli//__**= =By Alex Hooper=

[[image:Torricelli_2.jpg width="177" height="259" align="left"]]Here are some details about my life,
I was born on October 15, 1608 in Faenza and I died on October 25 in Florence Tuscany, 1647. When I was young I went to live with my uncle (a monk) because of family problems. (picture of me on left)

I contributed to the renaissance by
inventing was the “barometer” Pumpmakers of the Duke of Tuscany tried to raise water to a height of 12 meters, but found that 10 meters was the limit to which it would rise in the pump. I thought to use mercury, fourteen times as heavy as water. In 1643 I created a tube c. 1 meter long. I also discovered a Law, regarding the speed of a fluid flowing out of an opening, which was later shown to be a particular case of Bernoulli's principle.

I think these contributions were particularly important because
so in future people will be able to predict the weather, e.g. storms, tornados, and hurricanes. there will be millions of lives saved because of this invention, like hurricane warnings and tsunami warnings. so even if i didn't save anybody when i was alive, i would save millions in the future