Timeline: Artificial Heart | Timetoast

Dec 21, 1922

Paul Winchell, the inventor of the artificial heart was born.
Dec 3, 1967

First Transplant in Schuur Hospital in Cape Town

53-year-old Lewis Washkansky receives the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
Apr 4, 1969

first complete artificial heart in a human being.

Dr. Denton Cooley implanted the first complete artificial heart in a human being.
Oct 29, 1984

First infant to receive a cross-species heart transplant.

stitching a walnut-sized baboon heart into baby Stephanie Fae Beauclair's tiny chest, making her the first infant to receive a cross-species heart transplant.