Test How Well You Know Black History With This Inventors Quiz

Karyn Bailey|History|31 Jan 2020

What inspired Otis Boykin to improve the pacemaker?

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A doctors uses a device on a patient's heart.
Retry Correct Incorrect Otis Boykin lost his mother to heart failure at just a year old, motivating him to improve the pacemaker by inventing its control unit. He also invented the control unit for guided missiles and IBM computers.
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Maja Hitij/picture alliance via Getty Images

What inspired Otis Boykin to improve the pacemaker?

  • Volunteering in the cardiology department of a hospital
  • His child developing a heart disease
  • Losing his mother to heart failure
  • Being born with a problematic heart
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