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  2. List of French inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Bal-musette: a style of French instrumental music and dance that first became popular in Paris in the 1880s. Although it began with bagpipes as the main instrument, this instrument was replaced with accordion, on which a variety of waltzes, polkas, and other dance styles were played for dances. Cabaret by Rodolphe Salis in 1881 in Paris. [22]

  3. Category:French scientific instrument makers - Wikipedia

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    In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help. Pages in category "French scientific instrument makers" The following 26 pages are in this ...

  4. Étienne Lenoir (instrument maker) - Wikipedia

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    Étienne Lenoir (1744–1832) was a French scientific instrument maker and inventor of the repeating circle. [1] When hired by Jean-Charles de Borda around 1772 to work on the reflecting circle, he was about thirty years old and nearly illiterate. However, his intelligence and mechanical genius allowed him to perform work that few others could ...

  5. Category:French inventions - Wikipedia

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  6. Hippolyte Pixii - Wikipedia

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    An early form of an alternating current electrical generator, magneto, built by Pixii Hippolyte Pixii (1808–1835) was an instrument maker from Paris, France. In 1832 he built an early form of alternating current electrical generator, based on the principle of electromagnetic induction discovered by Michael Faraday. [1]

  7. Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville - Wikipedia

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    Scott built several devices with the help of acoustic instrument maker Rudolph Koenig. [6] Unlike Thomas Edison's later invention of 1877, the phonograph, the phonautograph created only visual images of the sound and did not have the ability to play back its recordings. Scott de Martinville's intention was for the device's waves to be read by ...

  8. François Périnet - Wikipedia

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    At this point, he changed his focus away from valved instruments to building natural horns. He reopened the business as François Périnet, Pettex-Muffat & Cie in 1859. The company Périnet still exists today, manufacturing hunting horns, although Périnet himself had left by the early 1860s and it is unclear where or when he died.

  9. Category:French musical instrument makers - Wikipedia

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