RIP Wilson Greatbatch...

Wilson Greatbatch is an awesome name for a man who...  ...is best known as the inventor of the implantable pacemaker , which came about by accident! The story goes th...  ..., he experimented with his idea of an implantable pacemaker Ñ working upstairs in an old, cedar-sided barn o...  ...operty and using his...

http://www.neatorama.com/2011/09/28/rip-wilson-greatbatch/