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It is important to remember that the very beginnings of manufacturing mechanical contraptions occurred before the advent of electricity.

To this day, Cima maintains a fully functioning room of elaborate belts and pulleys which actuated the various machines of the times sans e-juice.

In action, this room made quite the ruckus, a reminder that noise pollution at the workplace is by no means a latter-day invention.

Here is a sizable pin-cylinder music box with special add-on effects to the tuned comb like drums and bells.

Here is the mondo disc which drove an early coin-operated juke box.

By the cusp of the 20th century, the earliest record players appeared.

They quickly grew more elaborate.