J. W. Crook
inventor of the Themodist
Biography
J. W. Crook is identified in an illustration caption as the inventor of the Themodist, a player-piano device dated 1900. The accompanying diagram shows the internal mechanism of the device, but no further biographical detail about Crook is given in the text.
Highlights
- Invented the Themodist player-piano device, 1900
Source
Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. I (1911), p. 161.
Public domain.