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Karl Storz

Founder (1945) of the Tuttlingen endoscope firm; introduced external cold light from 1960 and built the Hopkins rod-lens telescope

Dates: 1911-1996 (source: Wikipedia (de): Karl Storz (Unternehmer) )
Chapters: VIII. Light

What the film says

The German firm in Tuttlingen that built the rod-lens cystoscope, lit through glass fibres, from 1967.

Watch 47:42 in the film VIII. Light

On the timeline

1945: Karl Storz founds his firm in Tuttlingen. timeline
1960: Karl Storz introduces an external cold-light source carried by fibre-optic cable. timeline
1967: The Hopkins-Storz rod-lens cystoscope with cold light is presented at the SIU congress in Munich. timeline

Sources

Sources

Wikipedia (de): Karl Storz (Unternehmer) Secondary
BAUS Virtual Museum: Cystoscopy Museum or society
Fuchs 2006, Surg Endosc 20 Suppl 2:S493-9 (PubMed) Secondary