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The Invention of the Chainsaw, Part 2

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Medical Chain Saws

Two different scottish inventors in the eighteenth century who may have independently come up with the concept of a medical chain saw. We're originally talking about a non mechanical invention, a fine serrated link chain which cut on the concave side. So this was hand held, hand powered. You pull it back and forth,. very much in common with some of those chain based cutting techniques that we were talking about in the first epi.

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