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In animation, Winchell was the original voice of Tigger, Dick Dastardly, Gargamel, Scrubbing Bubbles, and other characters. He also had medical training and became the first person to build and patent a mechanical artificial heart, implantable in the chest cavity (US Patent #3097366 of 1963). [1]
Jan 7, 2011 · We already unearthed the world's first artificial heart transplanted inside a human body, but Winchell holds the patent for one of the first artificial heart devices ever made, which he...
Winchell was also an amateur inventor, becoming the first person to build and patent a mechanical, artificial heart, implantable in the chest cavity (US Patent #3097366). [1] He has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in television.
With the help and advice of Heimlich, Winchell designed an artificial heart and built a prototype. He filed for a patent in 1956, which he received in 1963.
Oct 6, 2014 · In the timeline of events of the advancement of the artificial heart, the next individuals have been the focus of a controversy. Paul Winchell claims that he was the first to have invented the artificial heart and that Dr. Robert Jarvik copied his ideas to invent the Jarvik heart.
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Mar 1, 2012 · When not in front of a TV camera manipulating his dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff, Winchell was developing patents, some 30 in all, including one for an artificial heart that he...
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Jun 27, 2005 · Projects for the American Red Cross and the Leukemia Society resulted in medical patents. In 1963, Winchell developed an artificial heart that served as a prototype for the mechanical heart successfully transplanted by Robert K. Jarvik nearly 20 years later.
