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...electric lung, formally known as the electrophrenic respirator, was perfected by two men in the Physiology Department of the School of Public Health, Dr. James L. Whittenberger and Dr. Stanley J. Sarnoff...
...Sarnoff conceived the idea while assisting at an operation at the Massachusetts General Hospital three years ago. The surgeon performing the operation accidentally touched the phrenic nerve, causing the patient's diaphragm to contract. Sarnoff wondered why this couldn't be done artificially to cause regular breathing and took the idea to Whittenberger who was studying the respiration of polio victims. Together they developed the electric lung...
...idea was not original, but Sarnoff and Whittenberger did not know this until a few months ago. Someone then referred them to a book, printed in 1861 in England, which describes the method with crude apparatus...
James L. Whittenberger, associate professor of Physiology, heads the four-man team which has already made several significant contributions in the treatment of polio patients. The other members, also in the Physiology Department, are Dr. Harben J. Boutorline-Young, Dr. Benjamin G. Ferris, Jr. '40, and Dr. Stanley J. Sarnoff...
None of the FCCommissioners was invited to the demonstration, explained Board Chairman David Sarnoff, because RCA is currently engaged in litigation with FCC. Though well satisfied with the success of the demonstration, RCA was not yet ready to estimate the costs of its new tricolor tube receivers. Said Executive Vice President C. B. Jolliffe: "We do not pretend that RCA color is perfect . . . The great virtue of this all-electronic system is that it offers opportunity for continuing improvements. It does not have the limitations inherent in incompatible [i.e., CBS] systems...