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Earl Bakken, American inventor (died 2018)

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Earl Bakken

American engineer, inventor, and holistic healthcare promoter (1924–2018)

Earl Elmer Bakken was an American engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist of Dutch and Norwegian American ancestry. He founded Medtronic, where he developed the first external, battery-operated, transistorized, wearable artificial pacemaker in 1957.
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January 10

Day of the year

January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 355 days remain until the end of the year.
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