Kirbys Wonderful And Eccentric Museum Or Magazine of Remarkable Characters I
Kirbys Wonderful And Eccentric Museum Or Magazine of Remarkable Characters I
R S Kirby
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He arrived in England, May the 24-th, 1760. _i O ' * Soon after this be became the first or principal mechanic employed at Cox's Museum in Spring Gardens, which he left in 1773. He also professed himself a maker of engines, mathematical instruments, and a watch and clock-maker in general. After leaving Cox, he lived in Little Queen Ann-street, Mary-le-bone, and there obtained a patent fox his Rotisseur, or roasting-screen ; and also a second patent for another invention, combining the harpsicho...rd and piano-forte in one, which answered every expectation. Respecting this invention, we have heard that the opposi- tion that he met with from a number of teachers of music, A\ ho refused to recommend hi. S instruments, without a bribe, induced him to decline making any more. Alter some years he removed from Queen Ann-street to liis late residence, Ts'o. II, Princes street, Hanover-square, v, hen he gave up all thoughts of obtaining patents, but trusted entirely to his own superior ingenuity, and to his exertions in the hue of mechanism.
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