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Rune Elmqvist (1906–1996) developed the first implantable pacemaker in 1958 working under the direction of Åke Senning senior physician and cardiac surgeon at the Karolinska University Hospital in Solna Sweden.Elmqvist initially worked as a medical doctor (having trained in Lund) but later worked as an engineer and inventor.In 1948 he developed the first inkjet ECG printer which he called the mingograph while working at Elema-Schönander a company which later became Siemens-Elema.
