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Celadon Leeds Daboll
Celadon
Leeds
Daboll
, was a
merchant
in
New London, Connecticut
. From
1854
to
1861
he was
employed
in the U.S.
Department of the Interior
in
Washington
, D.C.
He
conceived
the idea
of applying the
principle
of the
clarinet
to a large
trumpet
, to
serve
as a
fog signal
for
mariners
, known as the
Daboll trumpet
.