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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