1. Anthony J Adducci was a pioneer of the medical device industry in Minnesota.
12 Facts About Anthony Adducci
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Anthony Adducci is best known for co-founding Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
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Anthony Adducci's family originated from the town of Alessandria del Carretto in Italy.
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Anthony Adducci attended Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, receiving the BS in Physics in 1959.
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Anthony Adducci pursued additional study in electrical engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology and in business administration at the University of Minnesota.
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In 1960, Anthony Adducci was employed as an acoustical engineer for the Jensen Manufacturing Company in Chicago, Illinois where he engaged in the design and development of loudspeakers and horns.
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Anthony Adducci taught high-level courses to the United States Air Force in Biloxi, Mississippi.
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Anthony Adducci developed an earplug and a recording device that would measure the tympanic temperature and got his wife, who was a nurse, to measure her temperatures, and they were able to predict ovulations.
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Anthony Adducci taught surgeons around the United States the basics of how pacemakers work and how to insert the pacemaker into the body.
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Anthony Adducci was involved in over fifty surgeries while at Medtronic.
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Anthony Adducci sold 8,500 pacemakers increasing sales from zero in 1972 to over $47 million.
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Anthony Adducci died in Scottsdale, Arizona on September 19,2006, of Multifocal motor neuropathy at the age of 69.