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History of the Gamow Bag:

In 1987 We were contacted by Igor Gamow to build a light weight hyperbaric chamber. Our test pieces were the ones that saved people in 1988 in Nepal (underlined in the excerpt below). Unfortunately we did not get a contract to build a production run of these because our facility was still in the chicken coup in Bondad Colorado.

Igor Gamow is the son of George Gamow. George and his wife Rho escaped from Stalin’s USSR around 1936 or 1938. They went on a vacation down a river that led to the black sea, in a canoe, and they just kept going. This I learned form a study in college called Great Lectures in Physics. George was a Co-Author of the Big Bang Theory, and was a leading force in the project to build the first atomic bombs. Igor has a number of accomplishments besides the Gamow Bag. Read more at the link provided below.

*Sir Edmund Hillary, leader of the first expedition to climb Mount Everest, wrote to Gamow personally to sing the praises of Gamow's first major invention, the Gamow Bag® (first patented in 1990). This began as a pressurized chamber that Gamow built in the mid-1980s in order to study the effect of high altitude on a person's stamina and performance. He eventually adapted the chamber into a soft, portable device that looks like an oversized sleeping bag. The Gamow Bag® is airtight when zipped shut, with a foot-pedal-driven air pump that can increase the air pressure inside the bag to the desired level. This means that a person suffering from the potentially deadly low pressure at high altitudes can enter the bag and recover in its simulated sea-level air pressure.

The Gamow Bag® has already saved dozens of lives. The first beneficiary was a French alpinist that Gamow encountered by chance during the bag's first tests in Nepal in 1988. The Gamow Bag® has also been used to treat skiers in the Colorado Rockies: "They were sick one day and able to ski the next." The Gamow Bag® could also readily be used on space shuttle flights.

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