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Johann Nepomuk Maelzel [or Mälzel] (August 15, 1772 – July 21, 1838) was a German inventor, engineer, and showman, best known for manufacturing a metronome and several music automatons, and displaying a fraudulent chess machine.

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Views on Maelzel show that he was not always positively viewed by his contemporaries (e.g. regarding his relation to Art).

  • Maelzel will be especially remembered [...] by the Metronome. [...]
    As a man, Maelzel seems to have been quarrelsome, extravagant, and unscrupulous. [...] Had he possessed a larger amount of culture and of conscience, he might have done service to high Art.<ref>The Year-book of facts in science and art; 1856</ref>
The Year-book of facts in science and art (1856)




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