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Greame
Due to Greame's close relationship with his deaf father, he started researching on and implant to help people hear. -
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Turban shell and grass
Greame receives a grant to researching 'The development of a hearing prosthesis'. Prof. Greame finds a solution by experimenting with a blade of grass and a small turban shell on the Minnamurra Beach in New South Wales, Australia. -
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Rod Saunders
Rod Saunders was the world's first cochlear implant user to show the benefit of multi-channel hearing. Data from Rod's implant helps the cochlear implant industry be successful in developing the implant. -
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Nucleus multi-channel cochlear implant
A medical device group, Nucleus, becomes interested in the potential of Professor Clark’s work. Eventually, Nucleus, Cochlear and the Australian Government would partner to develop a commercially available implant and bring it to market. -
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Upgrade
Three years after receiving his cochlear implant, Rod Saunders receives a new wearable speech processor -
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Offices are built
A small team establishes the Americas office outside Denver, Colorado.