Usually, you will know little to nothing of the bikes history. We also want to spend as little as possible on this bike until we know if the engine and all the gears work. Just shifting through the gears by hand is not good enough.
This overview showcases a few of the most significant developments in synthesizer history. It may surprise you to learn that the earliest seeds of modern electronic synthesizers began in the twilight years of the 19th century. In 1896/1897, an American inventor named Thaddeus Cahill applied for a patent to protect the principle behind an instrument known as the Telharmonium, or Dynamophone.
At the University of Manchester, a team under the leadership of Tom Kilburn designed and built a machine using the newly developed transistors instead of valves. Their first transistorised computer and the first in the world, was operational by 1953, and a second version was completed there in April 1955.