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Inventor

Hammond Laurens

Patents indexed

1

Year range

1934

Associated with

Years active

1934

Total patents

1

Most recent

1934

Domains

mechanicalconsumer_electronics

Activity by decade

1930s
1

Patents

1

Career timeline

1 patents, in 1934

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US 1956350·1934·Individual

How Laurens Hammond Invented the Electric Organ

Laurens Hammond's 1934 patent for an electrical musical instrument that used spinning tone wheels to generate sound, forming the basis of the iconic Hammond organ.

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