• Ep. 5: Unlikely Medical Inventions

  • Written by: Bill Bryson
  • Feb 27 2018
  • Length: 20 mins
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Ep. 5: Unlikely Medical Inventions

Written by: Bill Bryson
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  • How a teenage inventor, a pig's head, a lump of plywood and a famous British record label made medical history. Bill tells the stories behind the invention of the Reynold's Portable X-Ray Kit and the world's first CT brain scanner, with the help of Katie Dabin, who is the Curator of Medicine at the Science Museum. Their stories reveal how scientific inventions sometimes happen by accident or come from people without a classic scientific background.
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