September 2001
Setting the Pace
Wilson Greatbatch's mistake sparked the medical-electronics industry.
By Technology Review
Every year, more than 250,000 people get a new lease on life when pacemakers begin tapping out a steady rhythm for their irregularly beating hearts. Doctors had long been searching for a way to help such patients when the implantable cardiac pacemaker was marketed in 1961; a simple mistake pointed the way.
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