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NYGWPB.765.036
16 May 1765:31 (1167)
Caen, Jan.29. The utility of mechanics is universally
known, but the magick of that art is to be met with only in
certain inventions equally curious and amusing. The Sieur
Machard, jeweller, in St. Honore-street, has an easy-chair
of very singular mechanism. The chair, as soon as any body
sits down upon it, strikes out some musical airs, charming
to the ear. The agreeable surprise which this novelty causes
to persons who see nothing but a common elbow chair, and the
embarrassment they are in, not knowing from whence the
sudden harmony proceeds, have occasioned its being called
the magical elbow-chair.
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