The movie Frankenstein inspired eight-year-old Earl Bakken to consider how electricity could restore life and health to the human body. Bakken went on to invent the first external cardiac pacemaker and to co-found medtech giant Medtronic in 1949. Bakken’s fascination with the effects of electricity on the human body continued throughout his career, and he amassed a collection of medical and health-related devices that now reside in The Bakken Museum in Minneapolis.
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