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A human body require lungs in order to survive. The human lung is a respiration organ that transfer oxygen in the air to the bloodstream and exerting out carbon dioxide. Without the lung the human will eventually die because there's no oxygen entering the body's bloodstream.

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The idea of respiration was tested by John Mayow. By 1927, the first Iron Lung was built by Philip Drinker, a Harvard Professor (typical). The first patient to use the Iron Lung was at Bellevue Hospital in New York. Just to clear things up, the Iron is not small and shape like a lung. Its actually pretty **HUGE** (look like a metal coffin or a torture machine).=====

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Unlike the Iron Man's suit, the Iron Lung is stationary and it isn't slim. It has no fancy mechanism that can shoot canon or can fly. So here's how a person is set in the Iron Lung. A person place inside the Iron Lung with a head sticking out at one end. The chamber will seal tight so the air from outside the chamber wouldn't be a factor. There will be a increase and decrease in air pressure inside the machine which creates a pumping mechanism on the chest. When air pressure is low inside the chamber, the chest will inflate, when air pressure is high, the chest deflate, this helps the air flow to move in and out easier for the patient. So if you want to look cool, kill bad guys, and blast through the speed of sound, then go make yourself an Iron man suit. If you want to live longer( in a container that's no different than a coffin) then Iron Lung is a perfect suit for you.=====



Does this picture remind you of the movie The Island or the new movie Day Breaker? Where they farm human organ for the rich people to buy or farm your blood for vampire to drink. But don't worry, this machine was built to save lifes =).

Bibliography: http://historical.hsl.virginia.edu/ironlung/

picture- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iron_lung_CDC.jpg

http://web.missouri.edu/~danneckere/pt316/case/pulm/iron.lung.polio.jpg