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Today hundreds of thousands of Americans carry pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) within their bodies. These battery-powered machines—small computers, in fact—deliver electricity to the heart to correct dangerous disorders of the heartbeat. But few doctors, patients, or scholars know the history of these devices or how "heart-rhythm management" evolved into a multi-billion-dollar manufacturing and service industry. Machines in Our Hearts tells the story of these two implantable medical devices. Kirk Jeffrey, a historian of science and technology, traces the development of knowledge about the human heartbeat and follows surgeons, cardiologists, and engineers as ...
This is the definitive work on World War II fighter pilots of the Army Air Force. It lists all 80 Fighter Groups that had pilots who achieved aerial victories. The pilots within each group are listed in alphabetical order listing their rank, serial number, squadron and the number of victories earned while assigned to that squadron. The book lists 7,299 pilots who achieved at least a partial victory credit from the Air Force.
This illustrated collection offers a wealth of data on slavery, abolition, the Underground Railroad, providing unique insights into the African-Canadian heritage in Ontario.
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Committee Serial No. 12. Investigates possible conflict of interests among government consultants employed without compensation (WOCs) and other advisory groups. Focuses on Business and Defense Services Administration employees.--pt. 1. Focuses on Business Advisory Council employee-consultants' possible conflict of interests.--pt. 2. Continuation of antitrust hearings with focus on Government advisory groups and possible conflicts of interest--pt. 3. Continuation of investigation of possible conflict of interests of Government consultants employed without compensation (WOC's) and other advisory groups. Focuses on the authorship of a Commerce Dept pulpwood-newsprint report.--pt. 4.
Prior to 1862, when the Department of Agriculture was established, the report on agriculture was prepared and published by the Commissioner of Patents, and forms volume or part of volume, of his annual reports, the first being that of 1840. Cf. Checklist of public documents ... Washington, 1895, p. 148.