Juan Nepomuceno Adorno, Mexican philosopher,
mechanic and inventor (Ciudad de Mexico 16 May 1807 – Ciudad de Mexico 1880) Performed studies on meteorology, hydrography
and hygiene INVENTIONS Melography, a new musical writing in Melographie or nouvelle notation musicale (1855) Melograph piano or pianola Devices for manufacturing cigarettes, cigars and shredded tobacco (1846) Weapons (e.g. a weapon that could fire up to 70 rounds of ammunition per minute) A superdynamic railway A kaleidoscopic machine to prevent falsification of official documents Three-wheeled anti-rollover armored vehicles Detachable buildings Devices for pumping flood-water from dwellings A terrestrial globe capable of separation into pieces and 12 convex maps of Earth Accounting devices A steam mill |
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