George Fell

George Edward Fell (July 10, 1849 – July 29, 1918) was an American surgeon and inventor. He was an early developer of artificial ventilation and also investigated the physiology of electrocution, a line of research that led to Fell creating the final design for the first electric chair. Biography Edward George Fell was born in Chippewa, Canada West on July 10, 1849. He was the son of James Wilkins Fell and Ann Elizabeth Hoffman. After high school he studied engineering at the University of Buffalo and was working as a Buffalo City engineer starting in 1869, a post his brother, Charles Fell, eventually took over, planning many of the city's sewer lines. George Fell worked in 1879 as the US engineer on the Ontario–New York State International Bridge at Buffalo. He was a founding member of the American Microscopical Society and its president in 1890. Fell married Annie Argo Duthie (1872) and they eventually had four daughters and one son together. He received a medical degree from the University of Buffalo in 1882 and an ad eundem degree from Niagara University in 1886. George Fell was professor of physiology and microscopy at Niagara University as well as a physician at the Sisters of Charity Hospital in Buffalo up to 1895. He was a surgeon at the Charity Eye Ear Nose and Throat Hospital Buffalo from 1910 to 1916. Fell married Gertrude Luella Axtell of Spokane Washington in 1912 and moved to Chicago in 1917. He died at home in Chicago, Illinois from an enlarged heart on July 29, 1918. Studies and inventions Artificial ventilation