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Bruce MacDonald

Take a look at Earl Bakken's workshop.

"The Halloween 1957 power outage, caused by an explosion at the Black Dog power plant just south of Minneapolis, lasted for three hours and took the life of a young patient who was on an AC-powered pacemaker, said Dr. Robert Kowal, vice president of Medtronic’s cardiac pacing therapies.

"The pediatric patient’s surgeon, the now-famed Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, turned to Medtronic founder Earl Bakken for help…"
twincities.com/2024/10/30/medt

Earl Bakken works in the original Medtronic garage, then a medical electronics repair shop in Minneapolis, in 1955. (Courtesy of Medtronic) Bakken, in plaid shirt, with back to the camera, sits on a folding chair at an electronics workbench with several large pieces of equipment on the tabletops.
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Oct 31, 2024, 02:04 PM·Public·Web
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