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Patent Pending Basil Hirschowitz and Larry Curtiss invented the first fiber optic endoscope in 1957.[6] Earlier in the 1950s Harold Hopkins had designed a “fibroscope” consisting of a bundle of flexible glass fibres able to coherently transmit an image. This proved useful both medically and industrially, and subsequent research led to further improvements in image quality.
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