# Hammond Laurens — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Hammond Laurens has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How Laurens Hammond Invented the Electric Organ](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/1956350/hammond-organ) — granted 1934
  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.

**Full profile:** https://patentbrief.org/inventor/hammond-laurens

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