Antonio María Pineda Bujanda, Venezuelan surgeon (Barquisimeto, Lara State 27 September 1850 – Barquisimeto, Lara State 05 October 1941)

Authored over 50 medical works

INVENTIONS

Folding operation tables

Pineda catheter

An electric thermometer (Pineda ideal thermometer)  

An eye teno-neurotome used to section of optical nerve (presented in 1922)

Spatula for removal of foreign bodies in bladder

A spatula for dissections

A cautery torch

Pineda probe for urinary retention 

A procedure to make refractory clay made instruments (1917)

Magic tube for poising railways