Captain James Shearer told a military court he did not know about the new curfew time at the NATO camp in Tapa, Estonia when he went for pizza with colleagues and returned 24 minutes late.
During the First World War, an enterprising British field medic named Sgt James Shearer unveiled a machine that promised to revolutionise medicine. Shearer’s “Delineator” was a small wooden box that had an aperture at one end and a crank on the side. Clicking the shutter and winding the arm produced a small drawing of a human figure, punched with holes that diagnosed disease in any patient sat in front of it. The British Medical Journal hailed it as a life-saving device.
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