He worked with a team at the University of Utah to create a mechanical heart. It was later used in patients awaiting an organ ...

In 1982, a man named Barney Clark received the Jarvik-7 total artificial heart. Doctors removed his failing biological heart and replaced it with a plastic and metal device to circulate blood to ...

Sometimes, when I was watching various artificial heart experiments in the basement ... like the human experiment that was poor Barney Clark in 1982, became national TV sensations.

On this day in 1982, William C. DeVries implanted the first permanent artificial heart in Barney Clark; the aluminum and plastic device was called the Jarvik-7. Clark lived for 112 days tethered ...