Juan Nepomuceno Adorno, Mexican philosopher, mechanic and inventor (Ciudad de Mexico 16 May 1807 – Ciudad de Mexico 1880)
Performed studies on meteorology, hydrography and hygiene
INVENTIONS
Melography, a new musical writing in Melographie or nouvelle notation musicale (1855)
Melograph piano or pianola
Devices for manufacturing cigarettes, cigars and shredded tobacco (1846)
Weapons (e.g. a weapon that could fire up to 70 rounds of ammunition per minute)
A superdynamic railway
A kaleidoscopic machine to prevent falsification of official documents
Three-wheeled anti-rollover armored vehicles
Detachable buildings
Devices for pumping flood-water from dwellings
A terrestrial globe capable of separation into pieces and 12 convex maps of Earth
Accounting devices
A steam mill