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Johann Nepomuk Mälzel
German inventor and engineer
Johann Nepomuk Maelzel was a German inventor, engineer, and showman, best known for manufacturing a metronome and several music-playing automatons, and displaying a fraudulent chess machine. He worked with Beethoven to compose a piece of music for... Wikipedia
Born: August 15, 1772, Regensburg, Germany
Died: July 21, 1838 (age 65 years), La Guaira, Venezuela
Maelzel is known today as the inventor of the metronome. He was also the inventor of the Panharmonicon, a mechanical instrument that reproduced the sounds of ...
Ger. inventor of mechanical musical devices. Settled in Vienna 1792. Constructed panharmonicon, a mechanical orch. (exhibited in Vienna 1908) for which his ...