Friday, January 10, 2014

On This Date in Minnesota History: January 10

January 10, 1924 - Earl E. Bakken, an American engineer, businessman and philanthropist was born in Columbia Heights, Minn. “He founded Medtronic, where he developed the first battery-operated, transistorized, wearable artificial pacemaker in 1957.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Bakken




Earl E. Bakken

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Bakken



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