ESSEX has bred some pretty clever inventors throughout history. Chester Hall from Leigh designed the first achromatic lenses for telescopes, coach-builder Lionel Lukin from Dunmow invented the earliest form of lifeboat and Thomas Darby came up with ‘The Darby Digger’ – a steam-powered ploughing machine that could cover one acre per hour without the need for horses. Today, of course, there is a pub named in his honour in Wickford. But members of the Rayleigh Town Museum have surely stumbled across one of the most quirky inventions of all. One of the museum’s volunteer researchers has uncovered the story of a man who invented his own curious musical instrument.
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