Rockin’ Patent – Georges Eugène Frédéric Kastner’s “Improvement In Pyrophones”
Rockin’ Patent: US Patent No. 164,458 Filed: 24 December 1874 In the name of: Georges Eugène Frédéric Kastner (inventor) Title: Improvement In Pyrophones What’s claimed: ”A musical instrument, composed of a tube, A, and of two or more burners, arranged therein, one or more of said burners being movable, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.” Why this patent rocks: This appears to be one of the patents that relate to Georges Frédéric Eugène Kastner’s ‘pyrophone’ musical instrument that combines fire and sound; musical sounds are produced by the vibration of flames of hydrogen gas with glass or […]
