Word: heartbeating
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...Renaissance statuettes on display are small masterpieces that were in their way as highly prized as the metal and marble giants that adorn Italy's piazzas and palazzos. Shown in force, they present the Renaissance with such an intimacy that to see them is almost to hear the heartbeat...
...from suffering mild electric shocks. Over Australia and over the Pacific, the lights appeared as scheduled, and Enos, performing properly, got no shocks. He was reported by Mexico at 11:34 and by Canaveral at 11:41. He completed his first orbit in one hour, 28.5 min. His heartbeat (105-120), respiration (20-25) and temperature (98°) were considered normal. So far the flight was perfect...
...pump, synchronized to the heartbeat by means of an electrocardiogram, overcomes resistance in the arterial network and enables small substitute channels to dilate and carry blood which ordinarily would flow through the obstructed coronary artery...
...turning in now. You do as you please, but I am turning in." With that, Titov lay back for the programed 7½ hours of sleep, actually overslept by 35 minutes. On the ground, Russian scientists kept telemetered watch over the sleeping cosmonaut's pulse, respiration and heartbeat, watched his face by television when Vostok II circled within range. (A tape recorder automatically took down his every word in flight...
...more sophisticated model, developed in San Francisco by Dr. George A. Harkins (now in Boston) and Engineer Mogens L. Bramson, works on gas pressure and is hooked up to an electrocardiograph. It works like the Oregon machine until a faint natural heartbeat is detected. Then it automatically synchronizes itself, through the ECG, with the human pump, and works with it, never against...