Background
London was born on July 1, 1915, in Detroit and moved to Miami Beach, Florida as a youth together with his family, where he graduated from Miami Beach Senior High School in 1932.
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Seymour B. London
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Harvard Medical School. University of Michigan. University of Florida.
Career
He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Florida, was awarded a master"s degree from the University of Michigan and received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1940. They helped found the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and the Miami Heart Institute at Mount Sinai Medical Center. London developed the automated blood pressure machine after having to spend time on multiple occasions fumbling to take a patient"s blood pressure by hand.
He created the original prototype of his patented device using an old blood pressure cuff, a column of mercury, a pump from a fish tank and a microphone.
The study findings, which demonstrated that there was no statistically significant difference between the results taken automatically and those done by hand, were published in a November 1966 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. In addition to a United States patent, the device was also patented in France, Germany and Italy.
London died at age 95 on July 14, 2010, at his home in Miami Beach due to heart disease.
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United States