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Medical and technical developments1920A hearing aid using a vacuum tube,‘Vactuphone,’ is invented in the USA byHanson, produced by Western Electric anddistributed by Globe Phone.1933Harry Jennings and his disabled friendHerbert Everest, both mechanicalengineers, invent a lightweight, steel,collapsible wheelchair.Royal Air Force and other Allied aircrewwho need reconstructive plastic surgery.The Hospital remains at the forefront ofspecialist burns treatment today.19441937Italian neurologist Ugo Cerletti developsElectro Convulsive Treatment (ECT),convinced that induced convulsions wereuseful for the treatment of schizophrenia.1939During World War Two, the Queen VictoriaHospital in East Grinstead develops as aspecialist burns unit. It becomes worldfamousfor the pioneering treatment ofThe National Spinal Injuries Centre is set upby neurologist Ludwig Guttmann at StokeMandeville Hospital to treat servicemenand women who sustain spinal cordinjuries in World War Two.38
Medical and technical developments1946The Invacar company is founded, going onto win a government contract to supplytransport for physically impaired peoplethroughout the 1950s and 1960s. With itsdistinctive pale blue colour, the Invacar wasa common sight and went through about50 versions. Driving the vehicle becomesillegal on UK roads in 2003 as it does notmeet new safety standards.1947Bell Labs invent the transistor, which isquickly adopted for hearing aids.1950The drug chlorpromazine is produced totreat schizophrenia, mania and others.As one of the major innovations inpsychiatry, enabling far more people to bedischarged after relatively short stays onpsychiatric wards. It plays a major part inthe closure of asylums begun in the 1960sand hastened from the 1980s.1950The first polio vaccine is developed.Between 1947 and 1958 around50,000 people in Britain contract polio.Numbers begin to decline from the 1950s.39
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