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Victorian novelty device

Patent drawing of a music box cabinet showing the comb and star-wheel mechanism, cylinder, battery, induction coil, and wired handles for administering electric shocks in time with the music.

ELECTRICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.Gustav A. Brachhausen · December 21, 1897

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