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Who made the first chainsaw?
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According to history, Scottish doctors, John Aitken and Jeffray James, made the first prototype chainsaw to be used during childbirth. The chainsaw was invented to perform a brutal surgery known as a symphysiotomy on laboring women,
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The first chainsaw was designed by German orthopaedist Bernhard Heine in 1830. He called it the osteotome, from the Greek osteo (bone) and tome or tomi (cut); literally, the bonecutter. This chainsaw, as well as many that followed, were used for medical purposes.
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