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1959

Black Inventor makes the First Successful Pacemaker Possible

Chicago, Illinois

Boykin invented the wire precision electrical resistors used in computing, missile guidance, and pacemakers. One of his resistors was used as a control unit for the first successful implantable pacemaker.​

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Baltimore, MD 21218

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