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Electronic Services", operated by Noel Gray as a sole trader from 1959 to 1964.
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The company made significant contributions to pacemaker technology including the first definition of the relationship between surface area of the heart electrodes & pacing pulse characteristics, the first use of
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Nucleus Corporation Pty Ltd which became the publicly listed company Nucleus Limited 1980. In turn Nucleus Limited was acquired by
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corporation of Miami led to the company having to settle extensive worldwide compensation claims. This led to the sale of
Telectronics assets to, eventually,
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Gray returned to LHQ where he was placed in charge of the
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were taken out on his work and he was sent on a World study tour by
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