Visitors to the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s new exhibition, “Building a Better Mousetrap,” will see a version of a popular 19th-century tourist experience that is fittingly diminutive. Visitors ...

(Original Caption) Photo shows the "Theremin," one of the first electronic musical instruments, invented by professor Theremin, a Russian scientist from Leningrad. Photo shows the invention as it ...

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The turntable, invented 36 years ago, ranks as the most recently created music-making device with staying power. Have computers replaced the need for the next guitar? Composer and inventor Tod ...

Adding to his catalogue of achievements, Christopher Taylor can now call himself an inventor of an instrument that is the only one of its kind: the hyper piano. Taylor, a University of Wisconsin music ...