Chardack-Greatbatch Pacemaker
date: label: Date made
content: 1960's
name: label: maker
content: Medtronic
label: maker
content: Medtronic Incorporated
notes: label: Description
content: Wilson Greatbatch, an electrical engineer affiliated with the University of Buffalo, invented a small battery-powered pacemaker. William Chardack, chief of surgical services at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Buffalo, N.Y., implanted an example in a dog in 1959, and another in a man in 1960. An inscription on this example reads “CHARDACK GREATBATCH / PACEMAKER / MFD BY / MEDTRONIC, INC. / MPLS, MINN. U.S.A.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “New Pacemaker for Heart Tested,” New York Times (Nov. 6, 1959), p. 15.
label: Description
content: “Wilson Greatbatch, Pacemaker Inventor, Dies at 92,” New York Times (Sept. 28, 1911), p. B10.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Minnesota, Minneapolis
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0127.01
label: accession number
content: 2001.0127
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0127.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pacemaker
label: Object Name
content: pacemaker
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.2 cm x 7.7 cm x 2.7 cm; 2 13/16 in x 3 1/16 in x 1 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored: 1 in x 6 1/2 in x 7 3/4 in; 2.54 cm x 16.51 cm x 19.685 cm