{"id":70,"date":"2022-04-06T00:08:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T04:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/74.207.228.119\/?p=70"},"modified":"2022-04-11T16:55:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T16:55:16","slug":"paul-winchel-the-voice-of-tigger-invents-an-artificial-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/06\/paul-winchel-the-voice-of-tigger-invents-an-artificial-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Winchel the voice of Tigger invents an artificial heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The famous ventriloquist, and voice of Tigger on Winnie the Pooh, Paul Winchell is also known for his work on the artificial heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1565544566444-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1565544566444-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1565544566444-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1565544566444-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1565544566444-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1565544566444.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He became friends with surgeon Dr. Henry Heimlich, who invented the Heimlich maneuver, after meeting him at a casting party in New York. After observing Heimlich conducting surgery, Winchell got the idea that an artificial heart could keep blood circulating during open heart surgery. With Heimlich\u2019s encouragement, Winchell made a prototype and filed a patent application in 1961 which issued as U.S. Pat.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/US3097366.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/US3097366.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">3,097,366<\/a>&nbsp;in 1963.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8220;Odd as it may seem, the heart wasn&#8217;t that different from building a dummy; the valves and chambers were not unlike the moving eyes and closing mouth of a puppet.&#8221;<\/p><cite>Paul Winchel<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Robert Jarvik and Willem Kolff of the University of Utah were the first to develop a working artificial heart, the Jarvik-7. When Winchell\u2019s patent was cited as prior art to their patent application, the University reached out to Winchell asking him to donate his patent, which he did. Winchell maintained that his patent was used to develop the Jarvik-7\u2015a claim that Jarvik hotly disputes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous ventriloquist, and voice of Tigger on Winnie the Pooh, Paul Winchell is also known for his work on the artificial heart. He became friends with surgeon Dr. Henry Heimlich, who invented the Heimlich maneuver, after meeting him at a casting party in New York. After observing Heimlich conducting surgery, Winchell got the idea &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/06\/paul-winchel-the-voice-of-tigger-invents-an-artificial-heart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paul Winchel the voice of Tigger invents an artificial heart&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inventiveadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}