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Master Machinist

Master Machinist

Walt Terry came to Bowman Gray School of Medicine in 1959 to work as a biomedical engineer. He was known for taking someone’s idea and making it into a life-saving surgical tool. He made a table used in a procedure to separate Siamese twins as well as tiny bronchial brushes for a lung biopsy. His greatest professional challenge was the development of a solid brass disk in 1965 which was used to find certain brain tumors. Terry retired in 1975. This undated photograph depicts an instrument made by Terry.

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abstract
Info from: Around the Medical Center, vol. 7, no. 3, April 1975, p. 2
created
00/00/1975
description
Walt Terry came to Bowman Gray School of Medicine in 1959 to work as a biomedical engineer. He was known for taking someone’s idea and making it into a life-saving surgical tool. He made a table used in a procedure to separate Siamese twins as well as tiny bronchial brushes for a lung biopsy. His greatest professional challenge was the development of a solid brass disk in 1965 which was used to find certain brain tumors. Terry retired in 1975. This undated photograph depicts an instrument made by Terry.
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Photoprint
hasVersion
DF 579
identifier
nbg/obj/nbg_obj_00579, nbg/obj/nbg_obj_00579-th
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Digital Forsyth NBG Objects
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NBG_obj_579
publisher
Coy C. Carpenter Library
rights
These images are protected by copyright restrictions. Please contact the owning library (Coy C. Carpenter Library)for more information
rightsHolder
Wake Forest University
subject
Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works, Forsyth County (N.C.) -- History -- Sources, Digital Forsyth
title
Master Machinist
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