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  2. Jorge Reynolds Pombo - Wikipedia

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    In 1957, Earl Bakken of Minneapolis, Minnesota, produced the first wearable external pacemaker for a pediatric patient of C. Walton Lillehei. The Swede Rune Elmqvist (1906-1996) developed the first internally implanted pacemaker in 1958. During this time, Reynolds Pombo had designed and built an external pacemaker powered by a 12-volt battery.

  3. Earl Bakken - Wikipedia

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    The pacemakers at the time were large devices that required their own carts and relied on wall current for power. As a result of a power blackout on October 31, 1957, one of Dr. Lillehei's young patients died. Dr. Lillehei, who had worked with Bakken before, asked him the next day if he could solve the problem.

  4. List of people with color blindness - Wikipedia

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    Started a project in 2003 to develop a sensor that transposed color frequencies into sound frequencies. [25] Cal Henderson: b. 1981 United Kingdom: Programmer: Worked on applications to make the Internet more accessible to colorblind people. [26] Matt Holland: red–green b. 1974 England Ireland: Association football player [27] Richard Hughes ...

  5. Arnold Schwarzenegger just got a pacemaker. Here's what to ...

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    Pacemakers are also sometimes used temporarily when someone is recovering from a heart attack or heart surgery, but in this case only the wires are inserted into the body; the pacemaker box stays ...

  6. List of people with synesthesia - Wikipedia

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    Name Type Lifespan Country Profession Notes Source Richard Feynman: grapheme-colour: 1918-1988 United States Physicist "When I see equations, I see the letters in colors. I don't know why. I see vague pictures of Bessel functions with light-tan j's, slightly violet-bluish n's, and dark brown x's flying around." [3] Frank Iero: Chromesthesia: b ...

  7. These 30 Famous People Mysteriously Disappeared And Were ...

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    Image credits: Bettmann / gettyimages #3 Connie Converse. Elizabeth Eaton Converse, most commonly known by her stage name Connie, is often hailed as one of the first modern singer-songwriters, and ...

  8. List of cardiologists - Wikipedia

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    Name Birth Death Nationality Notes Reference(s) Maude Abbott: 1869: 1940: Canada [1] Robert Adams: 1791: 1875: Ireland [2] Anthony Adducci: 1937: 2006: United States: Inventor of the world's first lithium battery powered artificial pacemaker. [3] Raymond Perry Ahlquist: 1914: 1983: United States [4] John Ainsworth: 1957 – British: Treating ...

  9. Portrait of mystery woman found beneath famous Pablo ... - AOL

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    Conservators in London, England used infrared and X-ray imaging to reveal a never-before-seen portrait of a woman beneath a popular painting by renowned artist Pablo Picasso.