Heart problems are nothing new. Humans have been fascinated by electrocardiography since the era of Hippocrates (via St. Luke's Hospital Cardiology Department). With each passing century, medicine's ...
A chance mistake in 1956 by Wilson Greatbatch led to a groundbreaking discovery. He accidentally created a consistent ...
Today's pacemakers are about the size of a small matchbox, and future models are expected to shrink even further, becoming smaller than a grain of rice. Now, these devices, depending on the model, can ...
Earl E. Bakken, who, working in a Minneapolis garage, invented the first wearable, battery-powered pacemaker and went on to help create the world’s largest medical device company, died Sunday at his ...
Sixty-two years ago, an electrical engineering researcher at UB named Wilson Greatbatch made one of the most important medical breakthroughs of the 20th century when he invented the implantable ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Wilson Greatbatch, an electrical ...
WEST SENECA, N.Y. — Time is everything and Dr. Andrew Gage knows how to use it wisely. The soon-to-be 100-year-old was part of the "Bow Tie Gang" in 1960. "We worked on the pacemaker," Gage said. A ...
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