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<p>fiber optic semi-flexible <a href="page.php?w=gastroscope">gastroscope</a> was patented by <a href="page.php?w=Basil_Hirschowitz">Basil Hirschowitz</a>, C. Wilbur Peters, and Lawrence E. Curtiss, researchers at the <a href="page.php?w=University_of_Michigan">University of Michigan</a>, in 1956. In the process of developing the gastroscope, Curtiss produced the first glass-clad fibers; previous optical fibers had relied on air or impractical oils and waxes as the low-index cladding material. Kapany coined the term fiber optics after writing a</p><p>
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