may 5, 1958 - Pacemaker
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Wilson Greatbatch, an American electrical engineer, invented the first implantable cardiac pacemaker. Working on a heart-rhythm recorder, he mistakenly added an incorrect electronic component, so that the device produced electrical pulses instead of simply recording them.
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