Keeping pace with God's love
I recently had my pacemaker interrogation. Once a year the cardiology office collects and graphs the data it contains. Turns out my own heart is only doing about 25% of the work — and it's the device that is keeping my rate above fifty beats a minute. I was born with a slowpoke heart that has lagged even more with age.
Contemplating this the other day, I felt flooded with gratitude for this implanted gadget. I wondered who invented it, and did some investigating. What an interesting story.
Wilson Greatbatch — yes, that's his real name — haled from Buffalo, N.Y. He died at 92 in 2011. On the GI Bill, he earned an electrical engineering degree from Cornell University — followed with a master's from the University of Buffalo. He “loved fiddling with objects” — and that passion led him to develop the implantable pacemaker.
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