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A gong [note 1] is a percussion instrument originating from ... The tam-tam was first introduced as an orchestral instrument by François-Joseph Gossec in 1790, ...
Leonard Percival Howell (16 June 1898 – 23 January 1981), also known as The Gong [1] or G. G. Maragh (for Gangun Guru), was a Jamaican religious figure. According to his biographer Hélène Lee, [ 2 ] Howell was born into an Anglican family.
Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin (September 16, 1861 – 1947) was an American schoolteacher and inventor. In 1888, she obtained a patent for the Gong and Signal Chair for Hotels, becoming the second African-American woman to receive a patent.
John Joseph Merlin (born Jean-Joseph Merlin, 6 September 1735 – 8 May 1803) was a Freemason, clock-maker, musical-instrument maker, and inventor from the Prince-Bishopric of Liège in the Holy Roman Empire. [2] [3] [4] He moved to England in 1760. By 1766 he was working with James Cox and creating automatons such as Cox's timepiece and the ...
A striking clock is a clock that sounds the hours audibly on a bell, gong, or other audible device. In 12-hour striking, used most commonly in striking clocks today, the clock strikes once at 1:00 am, twice at 2:00 am, continuing in this way up to twelve times at 12:00 mid-day, then starts again, striking once at 1:00 pm, twice at 2:00 pm, and ...
1783 Invented the gong for repeater watches (bells were used until then). 1783 Designed the apple-shaped ( aiguilles à pomme ) hands, known as 'Breguet' hands. These hollow, eccentric "moon" tip hands are a variant of the hands first used by Jean-Antoine Lépine , the only difference is that Lépine's hands were not eccentric.
In Chinese mythology, Ling Lun is said to have created bamboo flutes which made the sounds of many birds, including the mythical phoenix. "In this way, Ling Lun invented the five notes of the ancient Chinese five-tone scale (gong, shang, jiao, zhi, and yu, which is equivalent to 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 in numbered musical notation or do, re, mi, sol, and la in western solfeggio) and the eight sounds ...
The production company ident for American television series Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders had two men that were about ready to strike a gong (a la the "Gongman"), with the man on the right (holding the gong mallet) striking the man on the left in the groin region and leaving him in agony (this was followed by the sound of the gong falling on the ...