Talk:Wilson Greatbatch

Philanthropy
Wilson Greatbatch has probably been much more philantropic than said by the the single reference under "Philantropy". Any users having more knowledge please add their knowledge. QRS (talk) 07:06, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Discovery by chance?
According to http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/ilives/lecture09.html and http://science.discovery.com/brink/top-ten/accidental-inventions/inventions-02.html he made the discovery by accident? Anyone knows more about it? Thanks, Panoramix303 (talk) 10:00, 9 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, I think I heard a similar claim when news of his death was reported on the Radio Four news on September 28 2011. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:57, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

You can find more info here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/wilson-greatbatch-inventor-of-the-implantable-cardiac-pacemaker-2363206.html 86.130.221.15 (talk) 07:58, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

That is unfortunately wrong as the Swedish inventor Rune Elmqvist already in 1958 made the first pacemaker. This pacemaker was inplanted on October 8 1958. The patient eventually became 86 years and died in 2002. Mr Elmqvist invention where manufactured and sold under the brandname SIEMENS-ELEMA. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ERICOSCAR (talk • contribs) 16:03, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Outdated link
Reference 2, to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, has an outdated URL. The current URL is http://www.invent.org/honor/inductees/inductee-detail/?IID=70

However, I hesitate to just update the URL, because I'm not sure the citations are still correct. For example, the Wikipedia entry uses that link to cite his high school, but that information isn't on the Hall of Fame page right now. Khelos (talk) 22:11, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

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