| | Respiration (physiology) Summary |
 | | One of the great bioengineering feats was the development of the "iron lung" to assist breathing. |
 | | In 1670 a scientist named John Mayow (1641-1679) built a model consisting of bellows and a bladder to pull in and expel air. |
 | | Inspired by the death of his son from respiratory failure, Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), inventor of the telephone, designed a vacuum jacket in 1892. |
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