What is Forrest Bird?
[[File:Forrest Bird 20081210-3 5e5u0049-515h.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Bird with President [[George W. Bush]], 2005]] '''Forrest M. Bird''' (June 9, 1921 &ndash; August 2, 2015) is an [[Americans|American]] [[aviator]], [[inventor]] and [[Biomedical engineering|biomedical engineer]]. He was best known for having created some of the first reliable [[Mass production|mass-produced]] [[mechanical ventilator]]s for acute and chronic [[heart]] and [[lung]] care.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/aug/03/forrest-bird-aviator-and-inventor-dies-94/|title=Forrest Bird, aviator and inventor, dies at 94 - Spokesman.com - Aug. 3, 2015|work=Spokesman.com}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/bird.html MIT Inventor of the Week: Forrest Bird] * [http://www.arcfoundation.org/awards/achievement/bird.cfm American Respiratory Care Foundation: Forrest M. Bird Achievement Award] * [http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/15.html National Inventors Hall of Fame: Forrest Bird] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060222013159/http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/15.html |date=2006-02-22 }} * [http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventors/a/Forrest_Bird.htm About.com: Forrest Bird]{{Dead link|date=January 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} * [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/05/60minutes/main3334433.shtml Forrest Bird on 60 Minutes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025002910/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/05/60minutes/main3334433.shtml |date=2012-10-25 }} * [http://www.percussionaire.com/ Percussionaire] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810120459/http://www.percussionaire.com/ |date=2015-08-10 }} * [http://www.birdaviationmuseum.com/ Bird Aviation Museum] {{DEFAULTSORT:Bird, Forrest}} {{commons}} [[Category:1921 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:Engineers from Massachusetts]] [[Category:American inventors]] [[Category:Scientists from Massachusetts]] {{US-bio-stub}}