Object Details
- Description
- Wilson Greatbatch, an electrical engineer affiliated with the University of Buffalo, invented a small battery-powered pacemaker. William Chardack, chief of surgical services at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Buffalo, N.Y., implanted an example in a dog in 1959, and another in a man in 1960. An inscription on this example reads “CHARDACK GREATBATCH / PACEMAKER / MFD BY / MEDTRONIC, INC. / MPLS, MINN. U.S.A.”
- Ref: “New Pacemaker for Heart Tested,” New York Times (Nov. 6, 1959), p. 15.
- “Wilson Greatbatch, Pacemaker Inventor, Dies at 92,” New York Times (Sept. 28, 1911), p. B10.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Medtronic
- Medtronic Incorporated
- Date made
- 1960's
- Measurements
- overall: 7.2 cm x 7.7 cm x 2.7 cm; 2 13/16 in x 3 1/16 in x 1 1/16 in
- overall, as stored: 1 in x 6 1/2 in x 7 3/4 in; 2.54 cm x 16.51 cm x 19.685 cm
- Object Name
- Pacemaker
- pacemaker
