John Joseph Merlin he wheeled about himself, with great facility to any part of the room." At an event held by Teresa Cornelys in Carlisle House, Soho Square, Merlin appeared somewhat disastrously on roller skates of his own invention. By April 1783 Merlin was putting his musical instruments and his automatons on display at his own museum. Advertisements invited readers to visit his Museum of Musical Instruments and Mechanical Inventions at No. 2, Princes Street, Hanover Square, London. Well-off Londoners could meet their friends at Merlin's Mechanical Museum in the afternoon or evening, pay to see the exhibits, and drink tea or coffee
Jean-Joseph Sue (1760–1830) Jean-Joseph Sue (1760–1830) Jean-Joseph Sue () or Jean-Joseph Sue (son) ( – ) was a French physician and surgeon during the Napoleonic Era. He was the father of Eugène Sue. He was born in Paris. His father was Jean-Joseph Sue "père" (1710–1792), who came from a 14 physicians family since Louis XIV. He received the Master of Surgery from the University of Paris in 1781 then earned his M.D. from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1783. His elder brother was Pierre Sue. He did not succeed his father to the Hôpital de la Charité where he only