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Heritage Moments: A Clarence engineer and the invention that saved millions of lives

2016-03-29 05:19:39| Electronics - Topix.net

One day in 1956, Wilson Greatbatch, a 37-year-old assistant professor of electrical engineering at UB, was working on an oscilloscope at a chronic disease research center on Main Street. He reached to get a brown-black-orange resistor out of a box of tiny components but accidentally pulled out a brown-black-green one instead.

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