The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Life-Saving Invention

by Wilson Greatbatch

Book Overview

Wilson Greatbatch, an electrical engineer in Buffalo, NY, had a brilliant idea and the technical know-how to turn his idea into a practical device, for which millions of people today are grateful. This is the story of the first pacemaker by the man who invented it.Intrigued by electronics from the time he was a boy, Greatbatch earned a degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University. It was during his time at Cornell that he first became...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573928062
• ISBN13: 9781573928069
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"