John McTammany

John McTammany (1845-1915) was a Scottish-born American inventor who is credited several patents from 1880 through 1892. Most notably the invention of the automatic player piano,[1][2] the free reed organette[3] and the first voting machine based in perforations of paper in 1892. [4] [5] [6] McTammany immigrated to the United States as a teenager and served in the Civil War.

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