Brief History of Ultrasound
-- Natural: Bats, ...
-- Piezoelectric effect:
Pierre Curie and Jacques Curie (1880)
-- Titanic sank in 1912:
Underwater detection systems
-- WWI & II:
SONAR (SOund Navigation And Ranging), Radar,
...
-- 1930's: Metal flaw detectors in industry, ...
-- 1940's: Medical applications, ...
-- More detail developments: