Chainsaws weren’t invented for trees. They were invented for childbirth. In the 1700s, when babies got stuck in the birth canal, surgeons used knives and saws to cut through bone. Brutal. Then a French surgeon, Jean-Claude Amont, designed a hand-cranked chain with teeth to make the process “faster and cleaner.” It worked… if you can call that progress. Scottish doctors improved it, and soon it was used on battlefields for amputations. By the 1920s, someone finally had the bright idea to take thi