- Biomedical engineering has only recently emerge as its own discipline, compared to many other engineering fields.
- The practice goes back many centuries. The oldest known record is from a mummy that was discovered in Thebes. The preserved body had the first known instance of prosthesis in the form of a wooden toe that was attached to the foot using a string.
- The stethoscope is one of the most popular medical tools used today, invented by a French doctor nearly 200 year ago. He felt uncomfortable leaning up to a woman’s chest to hear her heartbeat. His solution was to use a rolled up newspaper to amplify the sound of her heartbeat, thus creating the first stethoscope.
