• DOI:10.1177/003693300404900218
Corpus ID: 19878683

The Chain Saw - A Scottish Invention

@article{Skippen2004TheCS,
  title={The Chain Saw - A Scottish Invention},
  author={M. Skippen and J. Kirkup and R. M. Maxton and S. W. Mcdonald},
  journal={Scottish Medical Journal},
  year={2004},
  volume={49},
  pages={72 - 75}
}

M. Skippen, J. Kirkup, +1 author S. W. Mcdonald

Published 2004

Medicine

Scottish Medical Journal

The prototype of the chain saw familiar today in the timber industry was pioneered in the late 18th Century by two Scottish doctors, John Airken and James Jeffray, for symphysiotomy and excision of diseased bone respectively. The chain hand saw, a fine serrated link chain which cut on the concave side, was invented around 1783–1785. It was illustrated in Aitken's Principles of Midwifery or Puerperal Medicine (1785) and used by him in his dissecting room. Jeffray claimed to have conceived the… CONTINUE READING

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