IRON LUNG INVENTOR
C. M. Hammond Dies At 85 (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MEMPHIS (Tennessee), February 17. Dr. Charles Morgan Hammond, inventor of the iron lung, died at his home .in Whitehaven yesterday. He was 85. Hammond got the idea for his iron lung while suffering from pleurisy in 1906. While trying to breathe, he wondered if he could reduce the air pressure over his tortured lungs. In his sick bed, Hammond drew the preliminary sketches.
On his first day out of bed he visited a carpentermechanic on the plantation where he lived near West Memphis, Arkansas, and they built a crude respirator which fitted over the chest and was operated by hand.
Brandt Chosen (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) BAD GODESBURG (West Germany), Feb. 17. Mr Willy Brandt, the Mayor of West Berlin, was yesterday elected chairman of the West German Social Democratic Party and opposition candidate for the Federal Chancellery in the 1965 elections. Mr Brandt, who is 50, was the party’s candidate in the unsuccessful election campaign against Dr. Konrad Adenauer in 1961.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30368, 18 February 1964, Page 13
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