Musical Instruments
- Wagner tuba by Richard Wagner in the 1850s (inspired by Adolphe Sax).
- Accordion
- Glockenspiel, invented either in Germany (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) or in the County of Hainaut (now Belgium) in the 18th century.
- Gramophone record by Emil Berliner
- Clarinet by Johann Christoph Denner
- Harmonica by Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann
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