Robert Boyle invented a vacuum pump & discovered that this does not travel in a vacuum
The Honourable Robert 
Boyle was an Irish Natural Philosopher (chemist, physicist, and inventor), ... able 
to discover a series of important facts, such as sound not travelling in a vacuum, 
... the effects of Decompression Illness when in 1670 he used the vacuum pump 
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