Adolphe Sax: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Antoine-Joseph Sax
Born November 6, 1814 • Dinant • Belgium
Died February 7, 1894 (aged 79) • Paris • France

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A pianoforte by Bartolomeo Cristofori
Bartolomeo Cristofori
Italian harpsichord maker
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Laurens Hammond
American inventor
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Theobald Boehm
German musician and composer
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Johann Andreas Stein
German piano craftsman
Steinway, Henry Engelhard
Henry Engelhard Steinway
American piano maker
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Sébastien Érard
French musical instrument maker
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Johann Christoph Denner
German musician
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Robert Hope-Jones
British-American organ maker
Auguste Piccard, 1961
Auguste Piccard
Swiss-Belgian physicist
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Pierre Deligne
Belgian mathematician
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Charles Joseph Van Depoele
American inventor
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Russell H. Varian
American physicist
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Barthélemy Thimonnier
French inventor
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Sigurd F. Varian
American engineer
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Francis Edward Elmore
English metallurgist
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Alexander Stanley Elmore
English metallurgist
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Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
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Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist and physicist
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Auguste Lumière
French inventor
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Louis Lumière
French inventor