Space Age Implantable Insulin Pumps
In 1986 Sam Zaccari, now almost seventy, had one of the first implantable insulin pumps surgically placed inside his body. In 1998 he said, It's wonderful because without this technology that we got today I wouldn't have the control I have and maybe I might not be here. Zaccari's insulin pump, made of titanium, was developed in part from the technology of the mechanical robot arm of the first space probe sent to Mars. The pump had a similar design to the portion of the arm the Viking spacecraft...