Science Medical Equipment history

1846 William Morton, a dentist, is the first to publish the process of using anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide

1849 Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree from Geneva Medical College in New York

1853 Charles Gabriel Pravaz and Alexander Wood develop the syringe

1870 Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur establish the germ theory of disease

1881 First vaccine developed for anthrax by Louis Pasteur

1887 First contact lenses developed

The X-ray, a form of electromagnetic radiation, was ‘accidentally’ invented in 1895 by German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rӧntgen when experimenting with electrical currents through glass cathode-ray tubes.

1896 First vaccine developed for typhoid fever

1899 Felix Hoffman develops aspirin

1922 Insulin first used to treat diabetes

1926 First vaccine developed for whooping cough

1935 First vaccine developed for yellow fever

1942 Doctor Karl Theodore Dussik publishes the first paper on medical ultrasonic - ultrasound

1950 John Hopps invented the first cardiac pacemaker

1954 Gertrude Elion patented a leukemia-fighting drug

1964 First vaccine developed for measles

In 1967, the computed tomography (CT) scanner was created, which uses X-ray detectors and computers to diagnose many different types of disease, and has become a fundamental diagnostic tool in modern medicine.

1970 First vaccine developed for rubella

1977 First vaccine developed for pneumonia

1981 First vaccine developed for hepatitis B