Phenomenal Belgian inventor

 Adolphe Saxe was a Belgian inventor who lived from 1814 to 1894.He created the saxophone in 1846.

      As a child Adolphe Saxe survived drinking acid,falling three storeys and carbon monoxide poisoning.

       Despite three bankruptcies,his invention revolutionised music forever.

        Saxe suffered from lip cancer between 1853 and 1858 but made a full recovery.In 1894 he died of pneumonia in Paris,in poverty.