Ultrasound Technology

Lazzaro Spallanzani, an Italian Physicist, is the first to study echolocation in bats, forming the basis of ultrasound physics.

French physicist brothers Pierre and Jacques Curie discover piezoelectricity. Ultrasound probes emit and recieve soundwaves bythe way of the piezoelectric effect.

French physicist Paul Langevin, inspired by the sinking of the Titanic, invents a device to detct objects at the bottom of the sea. He invented a hydrophone, sometimes reffered to as the "first transducer".

Sonography was being used to appease athritic pain and eczema and to sterilize vaccines by European Soccer teams as a form of physical therapy.

Austrian Neurologist Karl Dussik is said to be the first to use sonography for medicine. He attempts to use it to diagnose brain tumors by tansmitting an ultrasound beam through the human skull.

American internist (someone who specialises in internal diseases) George D. Ludwig MD. develops A-mode ultrasound equipment to detect gallstones.

John Reid and John Wild invent a handheld device to detect breast tumors.

Joseph Holmes and Douglas Howry from the University of Colorado were pioneers in creating B-mode ultrasound equipment.

Swedish cardiologist Inge Edler and German Engineer Carl Hellmuth Hertz perform the first successful echocardiogram by using an echotest control device from a Siemens shipyard.

Dr. Ian Macdonald incorporates ultrasound into obstetrics and gynecology field of medicine.