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* First fully automatic multi-barelled gun, capable of firing 7200 rounds per minute (impressive even for today's standards) was a Fokker-Leimberger aircraft gun designed in 1916. It was abandoned only because wartime substandard ammunition was causing jams. |
* First fully automatic multi-barelled gun, capable of firing 7200 rounds per minute (impressive even for today's standards) was a Fokker-Leimberger aircraft gun designed in 1916. It was abandoned only because wartime substandard ammunition was causing jams. |
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* Electric instruments were introduced in the late nineteenth century, the first being Thaddeus Cahill's ''Telharmonium''. It was, in all regards, a room-sized synthesizer. |
* Electric instruments were introduced in the late nineteenth century, the first being Thaddeus Cahill's ''Telharmonium''. It was, in all regards, a room-sized synthesizer. |
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** Telharmonium provided steaming music since ''1897'' with two musicians playing pipe music. |
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** Also, there are recordings of purely electronic music that sounds like something a surrealist would have made no earlier than the 1970s that happen to be from 1913. |
** Also, there are recordings of purely electronic music that sounds like something a surrealist would have made no earlier than the 1970s that happen to be from 1913. |
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* The first motorbike was Daimler-Maybach ''Reitwagen'' built in 1885. Its creators [[It Will Never Catch On|considered the concept a dead end]] however and abandoned their invention focusing on cars instead. Boy, they were wrong. |
* The first motorbike was Daimler-Maybach ''Reitwagen'' built in 1885. Its creators [[It Will Never Catch On|considered the concept a dead end]] however and abandoned their invention focusing on cars instead. Boy, they were wrong. |
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