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Willem Einthoven was born in Semarang on Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), the son of Louise Marie Mathilde Caroline de Vogel and Jacob Einthoven. [2] His father, a doctor, died when Willem was a child.
He created the first practical ECG machine with surface electrodes. [4] He lectured on it in Europe and America, often using his dog Jimmy in his ECG demonstrations. [ 5 ] Initially Waller did not think electrocardiograms would be useful in hospitals.
These included a low-cost "iron lung", a humidicrib, the first portable electrocardiograph and the "visitel" – a forerunner to the modern fax machine. [1] His inventions gained him an OBE in 1940, and his work led to Both being given the moniker of the "Edison of Australia".
Electrocardiography is the process of producing an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG [a]), a recording of the heart's electrical activity through repeated cardiac cycles. [4] It is an electrogram of the heart which is a graph of voltage versus time of the electrical activity of the heart [ 5 ] using electrodes placed on the skin.
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1887: First practical ECG machine invented by Augustus Waller of St Mary's Hospital in London. [91] 1898: The mosquito identified as the carrier of malaria by Sir Ronald Ross (1857–1932). 1901: Amino acid Tryptophan discovered by Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861–1947). 1902: First typhoid vaccine developed by Almroth Wright (1861–1947). [92]
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