ROBOT HEART
Lindbergh's Invention KEEPS OTHER ORGANS ALIVE. (Received August 13. 7.35 p.m.) LONDON, August 12. The Sydney Sun-Herald ” News Agency ’ says: Colonel Lindbergh is being recommended for the Nobel Science Prize .for. the invention of un artificial heart, of which the. first 'European demonstration was given in Copenhagen yesterday. The robot heart keeps the entire animal organs and their intensely complicated st'uetures alive outside ol tin- body. | tliu s making cancer mid other research possible on living organs. The machine, which is regarded .ns a most important aid to medical research, was discovered as the result ol a her made in 1931, when I’rofesMor Alexis Carrol, of New York, who (was exporiment'ng on an artificial heart) chided Colonel Lindbergh that he had n-ot evolved anything 'o prolong life, and to allow peopfe to’ profit by his air miracles. Accepting fhr. challenge. Colonel. Lindbergh developed a mechanical, heart as a living’ heart, while I’rofessio.r Carrel roncenlrate,] on the scientific side. After years of effort, the pair' produced ' a rn'iiaele machine. ” , • • -
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Grey River Argus, 14 August 1936, Page 7
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