History
Before the development of the cox box a megaphone strapped to the head of the coxswain was used to make the cox easier to hear.
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“If you look at history you’ll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)