Cardiology
A Honeymoon at Siemens
The birth of echocardiography
5min
Published on November 1, 2021
If, on your honeymoon, you tell your wife that you need to leave her for a while to do some work in an ultrasound research laboratory at Siemens, you really need to have a good reason. Fortunately for Carl Hellmuth Hertz, he had a very good one.
The first ultrasound image of a beating heart in 1953
Hertz (left) and Edler with the Siemens ultrasound device they optimized