when did earl bakken invent medical device?
It wasn't until shortly after Medtronic was founded that significant progress began. Earl Bakken and his brother-in-law Palmer Hermundslie formed Medtronic in April 1949 as a medical equipment service company. Later, it manufactured some of the equipment. Both men conceived the idea of the cardiac pacemaker while Bakken was working part time at Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, Minn.