Summary

From Apple to Amazon, many great companies started in a garage. That includes the Minnesota medical device company Medtronic. In 1949, Earl Bakken co-founded Medtronic and later developed the first wearable, battery-operated external heart pacemaker. The Bakken Museum opened in 1975 by Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis. The museum explores science, technology and the humanities, highlighting the inspiration and innovation of Bakken's life story. "He was a kid who liked to tinker, liked the idea of electricity and he was really interested in how electricity was fundamental to life," Museum CEO Michael Sanders said. Bakken died in 2018, but his legacy lives on in the Bakken Museum.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 370674
Story Slug BAKKEN MUSEUM FEATURE (2020)
Location MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA
Format PKG
Date 7/2/2020
Archive Time 1:00:00
TRT 2:45
Video Description (FOR AN ADDITIONAL FEE, THE REPORTER JOE MAZAN IS LICENSABLE) (MOVIE CLIPS AND OLD PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE NOT LICENSABLE) WATER FALL IN FOUNTAIN IN GARDEN OUTSIDE HOUSE, BIRD IN BIRD BATH, FISH, INTERIOR OF BAKKEN MUSEUM, EXHIBITS, OLD MOVIE CLIPS (NOT LICENSABLE), EXTERIOR OF THE HEIGHTS THEATER IN COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, OLD PHOTO OF EARL BAKKEN, SOT, ANIKA TAYLOR (BAKKEN MUSEUM), MUSEUM EXHIBIT, PHOTO OF BAKKEN (NOT LICENSABLE), OLD PHOTOS (NOT LICENSABLE), PACEMAKER EXHIBIT, SOT, EXTERIOR MUSEUM, EXTERIOR OF MANSION, LAKE, DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS SKYLINE, CONSTRUCTION WORKERS RENOVATING PROPERTY, SOT, OLD MOVIE CLIP (NOT LICENSABLE), MICHAEL SANDERS (BAKKEN MUSEUM), STANDUP, PHOTO OF BAKKEN, SOT, OLD NEWS FOOTAGE OF BAKKEN (THIS IS LICENSABLE), INTERIOR OF MUSEUM, BUST OF BAKKEN, SOT, PHOTOS (NOT LICENSABLE), EXTERIOR MANSION
Description From Apple to Amazon, many great companies started in a garage. That includes the Minnesota medical device company Medtronic. In 1949, Earl Bakken co-founded Medtronic and later developed the first wearable, battery-operated external heart pacemaker. The Bakken Museum opened in 1975 by Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis. The museum explores science, technology and the humanities, highlighting the inspiration and innovation of Bakken's life story. "He was a kid who liked to tinker, liked the idea of electricity and he was really interested in how electricity was fundamental to life," Museum CEO Michael Sanders said. Bakken died in 2018, but his legacy lives on in the Bakken Museum.
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