Robert Boyle invented a vacuum pump & discovered that this does not travel in a vacuum
He showed that sound did not travel in a vacuum, and also that a 
flame... [DOC] [TLE] Robert Boyle - Wikipedia [PAR] Robert William Boyle FRS (25 January 1627  31 December 1691) was an Anglo
-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor born in Lismore, 
County Waterford, Ireland.