Question

Iron lung is an artificial device to assist respiration in an unconscious patient. Who invented it?

• A. Joseph Lister
• B. Philip Drinker
• C. Spembly Llord
• D. Ignaz Philip Semmelweis

Answer 1

The correct option is B Philip Drinker

Philip Drinker (December 12, 1894 – October 19, 1972) was an industrial hygienist. With Louis Agassiz Shaw, he invented the first widely used iron lung in 1928. He studied, taught, and wrote textbooks and scholarly works on a variety of topics in industrial hygiene; the iron lung itself was originally designed in response to an industrial hygiene problem—coal gas poisoning—though it would become best known as a life-preserving treatment for polio. Charles Momsen credited Drinker "and his friends" for their assistance with gas-mixture experiments that ultimately made possible the rescue of the survivors of the USS Squalus in 1939. During World War II, Drinker directed the industrial hygiene program for the United States Maritime Commission. After the war, he advised the Atomic Energy Commission.

So the correct option is 'Philip Drinker'.