Helping Us Breathe: The Fascinating Inventor Of The Respirator
The story of a life that reads like fiction
When one thinks of the name “Forrest,” one can’t help but think about Forrest Gump. It’s the wonderful fictional tale of a kind and true human being who isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. Gump travels around the world unintentionally becoming intertwined with characters and events that shape modern times.
Gump meets presidents, celebrities, rock stars, fights in a war, and starts his own successful company. The story is bigger than life and obviously something that could never reflect reality in anyway. Or could it?
What if I told you a real human being existed who happened to create one the greatest medical technologies known to humanity today by tinkering with a device he found at work?
What if I also told you this same person became a pilot at the age of 14 after meeting Orville Wright? But, this wasn’t the first major inventor he’d meet. He’d also be visited by Henry Ford, who would stop by at family functions.
This same individual would also fly with Howard Hughes and be the personal pilot for General George S. Patton. Like Gump, he’d also create his own highly successful company and meet two presidents. In his spare time he’d convert a specialized plane so…
