Glen Innes history: Both brothers devise a contraption to help polio victims

By Eve Chappell
Updated June 19 2018 - 10:28am, first published 10:01am
Piece of the past: The iron lung on display in the medical wing at The Land of the Beardies History House Museum and Research Centre.
Piece of the past: The iron lung on display in the medical wing at The Land of the Beardies History House Museum and Research Centre.

In the late 1930s, Australian engineers Edward and James Both designed a “breathing machine” otherwise known as an iron lung, which proved a life saver for some polio victims.

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