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What inspired Otis Boykin to improve the pacemaker?
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Otis Boykin lost his mother to heart failure at just a year old, motivating him to improve the pacemaker by inventing its control unit. He also invented the control unit for guided missiles and IBM computers.
What inspired Otis Boykin to improve the pacemaker?
- Being born with a problematic heart
- Losing his mother to heart failure
- His child developing a heart disease
- Volunteering in the cardiology department of a hospital
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