Word: staplers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last September, Clark visited the University of Utah Medical Center to review his only real option: a pneumatically powered heart developed there by Dr. Robert Jarvik, a 36-year-old medical prodigy who began to design his first invention, a surgical stapler, at age 17. Clark toured a facility where several sheep and calves are kept alive by Jarvik's hearts, and even witnessed an implantation. A calf named Tennyson set the survival record of 268 days before succumbing to an infection last year...