Josef Strauss

He designed a horse-drawn revolving brush street-sweeping vehicle and published two textbooks on mathematical subjects.

[1] Strauss had talents as an artist, painter, poet, dramatist, singer, composer and inventor.

The waltz-loving Viennese were appreciative of his early compositions so he decided to continue in the family tradition of composing dance music.

He wrote many waltzes, including: Sphären-Klänge (Music of the Spheres), Delirien (Deliriums), Transaktionen (Transactions), Mein Lebenslauf ist Lieb' und Lust (My Character is Love and Joy), and Dorfschwalben aus Österreich (Village Swallows from Austria), polkas, most famously the Pizzicato Polka [It] with his brother Johann, quadrilles, and other dance music, and also some marches.

[5] During a tour in 1870, he fell unconscious from the conductor's podium in Warsaw while conducting his 'Musical Potpourri', striking his head.