Polio paralizes particular nerves including the nerves that control breathing. When a person had polio, it became difficult for that person to breathe. That person was placed in this large iron cylinder. Their neck and head stuck out. A diaphragm at the foot would go back and forth. The diaphragm would pull one direction creating a partial vacuum making the person breathe in. Then the diaphragm would push the other way creating increasing the air pressure. The person would breathe out. Eventually the patient would either die or recover. Vaccinations have wiped polio out of most of the world except for Muslim areas. Today, other devices can force air into and out of the lungs without covering the entire body.
The first time scientists ever used the iron lung was in 1928.
It is still used although only rarely.
1928
June Middleton
My Iron Lung was created in 1993.
It was first used in 1952
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1928
Three men were involved in the invention of the iron lung. Their names were John Emerson, Philip Drinker, and Louis Shaw, Jr.
The first modern iron lung was invented by Harvard medical researchers Philip Drinker and Luis Agassiz Shaw in 1927.
It is 2 feet long
Black lung was caused by digging in the coal mines.
Your whole life if you need to.