While many authorities cite Dr. Arthur Leared as the inventor in 1850 of the binaural (two-earpiece) stethoscope, that honor more properly belongs to Dr. Charles J.B. Williams, who had in 1829 ...

This was the first attempt at a binaural stethoscope. George Philip Camman is credited with a design of the stethoscope most closely resembling its modern look. In 1855, ...

With modifications by others, like Arthur Leared and Nicholas Comins’ binaural versions, the stethoscope became an indispensable tool by the 20th century. At the end of that decade, the lead ...

It took many more years to develop the modern bell and diaphragm type of stethoscope. In 1861 an Irish physician named Arthur Leared created a binaural model with two earpieces on the ends of stiff ...

Early stethoscopes from the 1874 book Clinical Lectures on the Principles and Practices of Medicine. Later, binaural stethoscopes were developed that allowed the listener to hear the sound with both ...

René Laennec's stethoscope. Pic/YouTube After Laennec, Irish physician Arthur Leared invented the modern binaural stethoscope with two ear pieces in 1851 and George Cammann perfected the design ...

Follow these easy instructions to assemble and use your own stereophonic stethoscope: 1. If you have 2 old binaural stethoscopes lying about, pull or cut them apart as shown in Figure 1. Retaining the ...

This one is wooden, with ivory discs on either end. The modern binaural stethoscope, like the doctor uses on you, dates from around 1855, but monaural ones are still used in China. 2. a.