Listen: What Minnesota inventions have shaped modern life?

Scotch Blue painter's tape was set into boxes at the 3M's Hutchinson Plant in August 2022.
Scotch Blue painter's tape was set into boxes at the 3M's Hutchinson Plant in August 2022.

— Erica Dischino

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Pacemakers, Post-it notes and Spam rank among the state's best-known inventions. But creative Minnesotans devised hundreds of other products we take for granted. Reporter Brooks Johnson dug into this issue for Curious Minnesota and found so many interesting Minnesota inventions that he wrote two stories. He joined host Eric Roper on the Curious Minnesota podcast.

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