TechStuff Tidbits: Ben Franklin and the Glass Armonica

Only Benjamin Franklin would listen to a musician playing wine glasses and think “I bet I could use technology to make this easier.” And he did by inventing the Glass Armonica, an instrument that gained a peculiar reputation for producing ethereal music and . . . health problems?

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