1920, Electronic pacemaker
In 1926, Dr Mark Lidwell of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital of Sydney, supported by physicist Edgar Booth of the University of Sydney, invented the world's first electronic pacemaker. Dr Lidwell was working at Sydney’s Crown Street Women’s Hospital and had a newborn baby patient about to die from heart failure. He connected the child’s heart to electrodes and saved its life by stimulating the heartbeat with electric pulses. He never patented the pacemaker and avoided recognition as he was troubled with ethical concerns about prolonging life unnaturally.
1939, Medical Application of Penicillin
In 1926, Dr Mark Lidwell of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital of Sydney, supported by physicist Edgar Booth of the University of Sydney, invented the world's first electronic pacemaker. Dr Lidwell was working at Sydney’s Crown Street Women’s Hospital and had a newborn baby patient about to die from heart failure. He connected the child’s heart to electrodes and saved its life by stimulating the heartbeat with electric pulses. He never patented the pacemaker and avoided recognition as he was troubled with ethical concerns about prolonging life unnaturally.
1960, Plastic Spectacles lenses
In 1926, Dr Mark Lidwell of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital of Sydney, supported by physicist Edgar Booth of the University of Sydney, invented the world's first electronic pacemaker. Dr Lidwell was working at Sydney’s Crown Street Women’s Hospital and had a newborn baby patient about to die from heart failure. He connected the child’s heart to electrodes and saved its life by stimulating the heartbeat with electric pulses. He never patented the pacemaker and avoided recognition as he was troubled with ethical concerns about prolonging life unnaturally.
1960, Cochlear Implant (Bionic ear)
In 1926, Dr Mark Lidwell of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital of Sydney, supported by physicist Edgar Booth of the University of Sydney, invented the world's first electronic pacemaker. Dr Lidwell was working at Sydney’s Crown Street Women’s Hospital and had a newborn baby patient about to die from heart failure. He connected the child’s heart to electrodes and saved its life by stimulating the heartbeat with electric pulses. He never patented the pacemaker and avoided recognition as he was troubled with ethical concerns about prolonging life unnaturally.
1961, Ultrasound Scanner
In 1926, Dr Mark Lidwell of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital of Sydney, supported by physicist Edgar Booth of the University of Sydney, invented the world's first electronic pacemaker. Dr Lidwell was working at Sydney’s Crown Street Women’s Hospital and had a newborn baby patient about to die from heart failure. He connected the child’s heart to electrodes and saved its life by stimulating the heartbeat with electric pulses. He never patented the pacemaker and avoided recognition as he was troubled with ethical concerns about prolonging life unnaturally.
1992, Wi-Fi technology
In 1926, Dr Mark Lidwell of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital of Sydney, supported by physicist Edgar Booth of the University of Sydney, invented the world's first electronic pacemaker. Dr Lidwell was working at Sydney’s Crown Street Women’s Hospital and had a newborn baby patient about to die from heart failure. He connected the child’s heart to electrodes and saved its life by stimulating the heartbeat with electric pulses. He never patented the pacemaker and avoided recognition as he was troubled with ethical concerns about prolonging life unnaturally.
2000, Google Maps
In 1926, Dr Mark Lidwell of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital of Sydney, supported by physicist Edgar Booth of the University of Sydney, invented the world's first electronic pacemaker. Dr Lidwell was working at Sydney’s Crown Street Women’s Hospital and had a newborn baby patient about to die from heart failure. He connected the child’s heart to electrodes and saved its life by stimulating the heartbeat with electric pulses. He never patented the pacemaker and avoided recognition as he was troubled with ethical concerns about prolonging life unnaturally.
1991, Gradasil and Cervarix Cancer Vaccines
In 1926, Dr Mark Lidwell of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital of Sydney, supported by physicist Edgar Booth of the University of Sydney, invented the world's first electronic pacemaker. Dr Lidwell was working at Sydney’s Crown Street Women’s Hospital and had a newborn baby patient about to die from heart failure. He connected the child’s heart to electrodes and saved its life by stimulating the heartbeat with electric pulses. He never patented the pacemaker and avoided recognition as he was troubled with ethical concerns about prolonging life unnaturally.
