After checking out an MC Escher exhibition at the local museum, I thought someone left their lunch on a pillar as it was just a styrofoam container and plastic ware – it had a little brass plate that read “Do not touch”, so I didn’t
I’d have to argue that Wurlitzer’s orchestrions used in carnivals, circuses and carousels were better known than the Panharmonicon, a barrel organ predecessor of the Orchestrion. As for earliest, orchestrions were derived from Barrel Organ technology that originated with cuckoo mechanism invented 200 years prior by clockmakers
And here I thought the roaches were stealing my used q-tips for pugil stick practice