The origin of the word goes back to Greek mythology. There was in it a character named Stentor, who just had the ability to shout with all their lungs, to put it in some way. Homer proclaimed him, comparing its unison with the tumult of fifty men.Stentor perished by reason, in the case of the Greek myths: the gods are baited, faithful to its policy that no mortal should lift its head. The Roman mercury ) as well, the god Hermes ( He challenged him to a duel of screams. The result is that Hermes, for being God, won, while Stentor perished in a miserable way, bursting like a toad.In tribute to Stentor, in the times of Alejandro Magno was christened tube estentorofonico an invention consisting of a trumpet attached to an amplifier Horn, that would be the grandfather of the current megaphones.
