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Acoustics, the science of sound, started in the 6th century BC. Ultrasound physics was discovered by Lazzaro Spallanzani in 1794 when he explained echolocation in bats, used for hunting and navigating by inaudible sound. Jacques and Pierre Curie, in 1880, discovered the piezoelectric effect, which was later used in transducers to generate and detect ultrasonic waves in air and water. In 1917, the first technological application of ultrasound was introduced by Paul Langevin to detect submarines and icebergs during the First World War.
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Agarwal, A., Maleki, A., Nguyen, Q.D. (2019). History and Principles of Ocular Ultrasonography. In: Algaeed, A., Kozak, I. (eds) Clinical Atlas of Ophthalmic Ultrasound. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99870-1_1
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