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Louis Bernard Woeste

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Louis Bernard Woeste worked out of Newport, Kentucky, and filed the first formal patent for a mirrored, faceted sphere in 1917, decades before disco existed as a genre.

Little else about his life is well documented, and his invention outlived any record of the man himself, surviving instead as an object without a name most people ever attach to him.

Correctly credited for

Holds the first patent for the mirrored disco-ball-style sphere, under the name 'Myriad Reflector.'

Connected entry: The Disco Ball