People are born , people die, but a very few would transform the life. The world is a better place today because of this transformers. The world mourns for those who had impacted them..
Here are two people whose inventions and innovations transformed life, one on business ,and other on Health.
Wilson Greatbatch (September 6, 1919 – September 27, 2011) The man who invented the first practical implantable cardiac pacemaker, Wilson Greatbatch, has died in Buffalo, New York, aged 92.
He was not the first to come up with a surgically implanted pacemaker. That happened in 1958 in Sweden, using a device designed by Rune Elmqvist. But the pacemaker failed after three hours and was replaced with a second one that lasted two days. An improved version of the Elmqvist pacemaker was implanted in February 1960, in Montevideo, Uruguay. That device functioned successfully for nine months, until the patient died. The Greatbatch pacemaker featured a mercury battery that last for two years. He later acquired the rights to a newly developed lithium-iodine battery, which proved even more effective.
Inventing was Greatbatch's lifelong passion. In 1998 he was admitted to the National Inventors' Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio.He held more than 350 patents and was a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame and a recipient of the Lemelson–MIT Prize. In 1983, the implantable pacemaker was named one of the 10 great engineering contributions to society in the part 50 years, by the National Society of Professional Engineers.
In later years, he invested time and money in developing fuels from plants and supporting work at the University of Wisconsin in Madison on helium-based fusion reaction for power generation.
He also visited with thousands of schoolchildren to talk about invention, and when his eyesight became too poor for him to read in 2006, he continued to review papers by graduate engineering students on topics that interested him by having his secretary read them aloud.
The American Heart Association says that more half a million pacemakers are now implanted every year., in America
TiMaS Salutes - The Inventor who elongated Life of Millions of people. People like Greatbatch may have left their earthly body, but their inventions are eternal
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