In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
HARMONIPHONS
Noun
harmoniphons
plural of harmoniphon
Source: Wiktionary
HARMONIPHON
Har*mon"i*phon, n. Etym: [Gr. (Mus.)
Definition: An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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