MECHANICAL HEART.
LINDBERGH’S REMARKABLE INVENTION. IMPORTANT AID TO MEDICAL RESEARCH. RECOMMENDED FOR NOBEL PRIZE. (Received Thursday, 7.35 p.m.) LONDON, August 12. The ‘Sun-Herald” News Agency says Colonel Lindbergh is being recommended for the Nobel Science Prize for the invention of an 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 structures alive outside the body, thus making cancer and other research possible on living organs. The machine, which is regarded as a most important aid to medical research, was discovered as a result of a bet made in 1931, when Professor Alexis Carrel, of New York, who was experimenting on an artificial heart, chided Colonel Lindbergh that he ha<l not evolved anything to prolong life and allow people to profit by his air miracles. Accepting the challenge, Colonel Lindbergh developed a mechanical heart, while Professor Carrel concentrated on the scientific side. After years of effort, the pair produced a miracle machine.
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Wairarapa Age, 14 August 1936, Page 5
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