Albert Hyman

 ( 1893 Births ) 

Albert Salisbury Hyman (1893 - 1972), a Harvard-trained New York cardiologist, together with his brother Charles, constructed in 1930-1932 an electromechanical device which was one of the earliest artificial pacemakers. The device was reportedly tested on experiment animals and at least one human patient.

The first artificial pacemaker was invented by anaesthesiologist Dr Mark C Lidwill. He used it to resuscitate a newborn baby at the Crown Street Women's Hospital, Sydney in 1926. However, Hyman used and popularised the term "artificial pacemaker," which remains in use today.

Aquilina O, " A brief history of cardiac pacing ", Images Paediatr Cardiol 27 (2006), pp.17-81.

Lidwell did not patent his invention and remained anonymous for many years to avoid public controversy. Hyman's machine did not gain general acceptance from the medical community, which opposed him in his attempts to popularise the use of his version of the invention.

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External links

• Timeline of great achievements
• "Beating of Heart Is Revived by Electrified Needle" Popular Mechanics, March 1933—bottom of page 360

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