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Before we used it to print out grainy, black-and-white photos of unborn babies that look like slightly lumpy potatoes, ultrasound was industrial tech. It was…
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The first functioning artificial kidney wasn't built from state-of-the-art medical polymers; it was made out of sausage casings. During WWII, Dr. Willem Kolff…
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The gritty, distorted sound that defined rock and roll was a total accident caused by shoddy electronics. While recording a country song in 1961, a…
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Today, an Apple Watch can track your heart rhythm while you aggressively ignore an email. But the very first EKG machine invented by Willem Einthoven took up…
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