“…However, in 1893, Nitze advanced the technique when he took photographs through the cystoscope and published the first atlas of pathology [45]. At least 40 years elapsed before colour photographs were produced; these were taken using a semi‐rigid gastroscope and were of the stomach [46]. The next step was the use of television cameras, which is thought to have originated in France in 1956 with bronchoscopy, an idea which later led to the first videotapes of an endoscopic procedure in gynaecology [47,48].…”