Color Television
Guillermo González Camarena was only 23 when he patented a system that would make the black and white television obsolete. His knowledge in mechanical engineering pushed the already popular invention even further by adding color, calling it the “chromosomic adapter for television equipment.”
The first color television broadcast, which took place in 1963, was possible thanks to his invention!
Could you imagine looking at black and white movies nowadays!? We sure can’t!
The Artificial Heart
In the 1950s, an Argentinian surgeon by the name of Domingo Liotta would invent something that would take the medical world by storm. He began developing an artificial heart and, in 1963, together with E. Stanley Crawford implanted the Left Ventricle Assist Device, also known as LVAD, in a patient.
This would only be the first step, however, as in 1969, Liotta developed the total artificial heart. This invention would later be used at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston for the first time.
The artificial heart sustained blood flow through a patient’s body for nearly three days! Thanks to his monumental invention, the first permanent artificial heart would later be invented in Utah.
