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The stethoscope was born of embarrassment and a sheet of paper.

In Paris in 1816, René Laennec was uncomfortable putting his ear directly on a woman's chest. He noticed that a rolled-up sheet of paper actually amplified the heart sounds, and built a monaural wooden tube from the idea. He called the method "mediate auscultation" and the device a stethoscope.

Useful: A tool doesn't have to be more complicated than the problem it solves.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

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