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Gordon Russell Ball Birth 4 Sep 1921 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England Death Aug 1985 in Rotherwick, Hampshire

Engineer and Doctor

Gordon had amazing short sight and worked as a precision grinder during WW2. After the WW2, he retrained as a doctor for the new NHS. For a while he worked as a GP but he was still drawn to engineering. He invented the first baby incubator for ambulances. He gave up being a GP and combined both engineering and medicine. He was given 6 months to reduce the cost (which he did by half). They ask him to reduce the remaining cost by another half with another 6 months. He refused as most saving had been made already.

Ajrobb (talk) 10:18, 18 October 2012 (UTC)