

![]() | Project title | This experiment teaches you how to build your own homemade stethoscope and how to use it to measure a person's heartbeat |
| Difficulty Level | Elementary school | |
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Description | ||
| Over 170 years ago, a man named Laennec invented the first stethoscope. Before your class goes into the Institute's Giant Heart in the BioScience Exhibit stop and see it. It is a wooden tube about 1 inch in diameter and about 10 inches long. This experiment teaches you how to build your own homemade stethoscope and how to use it. | ||
Materials | ||
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Brief Instructions | ||
| [Please see third-party website for instructions] | ||