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Small Inventions, Big Impact

Patented: History of Inventions

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An Ant and Ant Mandibles for the Surgical Staple

Justito magine: We can thank an ant and ants mandibles for the surgical staple. He says it wouldn't work if you're on a camping trip, say, in this country at all. Justito Magine: If he hadn't been in maine, new england, and had been in clerkenwell, i don't know.

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Speaker 2
Is, what do weabiomimicry, when innovation comes from nature. We can thank an ant and ants mandibles for the surgical staple. That's amazing. I'm totally going to try that out, ye.
Speaker 1
And, i mean, it wouldn't work if you're on a camping trip, say, and i mean, you could if you wanted to, however, in this country in the u k. I don't think many of our ant species would work. You need s your army ants, your warrior ants.
Speaker 2
Justito magine is like like if he hadn't been in maine, new england, and had been in clerkenwell, i don't know. And the same thing had happened tand presumably, maybe the stapler would have never happened, yes,
Speaker 1
maybe not. Yes, the ants would be less angry, maybe. At this point, if time, ok.
Speaker 2
I mean, you say tha medical. I mean, did normal staples exist then? Was that the kind of the first staple? And then from there, som that all i know, we can join bits of paper together with such a ant mandible. Well,
Speaker 1
i guess i get sort of morphine between the staple and the paper clip there. I mean, if we go back just to the pure staple in its purest ant form, you know, i mentioned 18 95, but if you go back even earlier, there was an indian physician called surita who wrote, i think we're oing back about three thousand years ago. He wrote about the use of ant staples, not just, and this is the thing, thit'll blow your mind, not just for superficial injuries, like closing a skin wound, but four joining intestines together. So if i'd been alive three thousand years ago, oh my gode, be me in these ant staples, they were kind of thoure, not exactly sterile, but they would hold good for several days. And if they came undone, you could just go out and get some more ants.

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