1956 Press Photo Temple Fleming demonstrates automatic iron lung

Wired For Breathing. March of Dimes volunteer Temple Fleming, Miss Jefferson parish in 1955, looks at record of electrical impulses created when she breathes. Around her neck she wears strap containing electrodes which trigger automatic iron lung announced here yesterday at conference sponsored by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Impulse from patients own muscle potentials set iron lung to working. They make the machine adapt itself to patient's need rather than the other way around. Research leading to the new device was made possible by the March of Dimes.

Photo is dated 1956.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.