1953: Philadelphia surgeon John H. Gibbon Jr. performs the first successful human-heart surgery assisted by a heart-lung machine.
For 26 minutes, Gibbon unhooked his patient’s heart from its usual vascular networks and plugged the 18-year-old woman’s arteries and veins into a machine that oxygenated and pumped blood. The operation was the first to use a machine [...]
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May 6, 1953: The Heart-Machine Age Begins
May 6th, 2010 |
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March 17, 1953: The Black Box Is Born
March 17th, 2010 |
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1953: After several high-profile crashes of de Havilland Comet airliners go unsolved, Australian researcher David Warren invents a device to record cockpit noise and instruments during flight.
During the first half of aviation’s history, crashes rarely came with any answers. Even if an eyewitness saw an airplane crash, little was known of the cause or what [...]
Jan. 14, 1953: Federal Express Leaves for Washington … and Crash
January 14th, 2010 |
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1953: A train leaves Boston packed with people heading to Washington, D.C., for the presidential inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower. It suffers a catastrophic brake failure and will crash through a railroad terminal at its destination the next morning.
Thanks to the quick thinking and action of the engineers, there were only 87 injuries [...]