Implantable pacemaker

Modern · Medicine · 1958

TL;DR

Implantable pacemaker - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Implantable pacemaker - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

External pacemaker Bipolar junction transistor Nickel–cadmium battery Wearable pacemaker

Enabling Materials

  • Epoxy resin

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Implantable pacemaker:

Lithium battery pacemaker

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Path Dependence

Related Inventions

Bipolar junction transistor Wearable pacemaker Nickel–cadmium battery External pacemaker Lithium battery pacemaker

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