PACEMAKERS.


BAKKEN, EARL, VINCENT GOTT, C. WALTON LILLEHEI and WILLIAM WEIRICH. Group of 4 items related to the development of light-weight, battery-operated pacemakers, comprising: 1. "The treatment of complete heart block by the combined use of a myocardial electrode and an artificial pacemaker." [In:] Surgical Forum (volume 8, pp. 360-363). Chicago 1958. 8vo, publisher's green cloth. Inscribed by Gott and Bakken. 2. "Control of complete heart block by use of an artificial pacemaker and a myocardial electrode." [In:] Circulation Research (volume, pp 410-415). New York 1958. Minimal ex-library (no markings on spine or title page). 4to, red cloth. Ex-library with markings to endpapers.3. University of Minnesota Department of Surgery's 1st Annual Bakken Surgical Device Symposium "Celebrating 50 Years of Wearable Battery-Powered Pacemakers." Minneapolis 2007. Folded leaflet. Signed by Bakken. 4. Black and white photograph of Bakken. 5 x 7 inch. Inscribed by Bakken, "To Bruce Fye, With best wishes, Earl Bakken. Jan. 1993."GROUNDBREAKING ARTICLE ON ARTIFICIAL PACEMAKERS, INSCRIBED by Bakken and Gott. Earl Bakken was an electrical engineer working with the University of Minnesota when he produced the first light-weight, battery-powered pacemaker at the request of C. Walton Lillehei. Gott was working as a surgical resident in Lillehei's laboratory at the time. The inscriptions in item one were written at the 50th anniversary celebration of the invention of the pacemaker in Minneapolis on December 13, 2007. Gott's reads, "Bruce - Congratulations on your outstanding pursuit of medical history - Nobody does it better," and Bakken's reads "I built the featherweight transistorized pacemaker mentioned on page 362. The rest is history. Earl E. Bakken. Best wishes to Bruce Fye. Dec. 13, 07." Garrison-Morton 3047.11.