Greatest Engineering Achievements - #16 Health Technologies
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| Audience/Grade: | High School Junior -Continuing Education 11-Continuing Education |
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Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation |
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Organization:National Academy of Engineering - NAE |
| Description: | Part of the National Academy of Engineering's site of the top 20 greatest engineering achievements of the Twentieth Century. Health technologies are listed as #16 in impact. The site has a timeline and an essay by Wilson Greatbatch, as well as resources on the heart, bionics, operating tools and bioengineering. " In 1900 the average life expectancy in the United States was 47 years. By 2000 it was nearing 77 years. That remarkable 30-year increase was the result of a number of factors, including the creation of a safe water supply. But no small part of the credit should go to the century's wide assortment of medical advances in diagnosis, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and other forms of treatment." |
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| Keywords: | engineering achievements health technologies healthcare Wilson Greatbatch heart bionics operating tools and bioengineering. |
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Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century |
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(c) Design a system, component, or process |
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Great site to show the engineering behind everyday products and systems. |
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Easy |
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Low |
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| Publication Date: | December 2009 |
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WWW |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=2964 |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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