Library Collections: Visual Still: Item Description
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Visual Still Information
Title: | Gangway! | |
Original caption: | "A New Style Vehicle Comes to Warm Springs." Property of Louis McCalley of Middletown, Ohio, now occupying the Amory Cottage. It rides easily at seven miles an hour; in low gear travels at three miles an hour. Runs fifteen miles without recharging. Lever acts as steering wheel, chair can travel in reverse and has brake action. Cost about $250. | |
Creator: | n/a | |
Date: | June 1932 | |
Format: | Photograph | |
Publication: | The Polio Chronicle | |
Source: | Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Archives | |
Location: | p.10 | |
Keywords: | Assistive Technology; Disease; Economics; Georgia; Health & Medicine; Institutions; Inventions; Ohio; Physical Disability; Polio; Powerchair; Rehabilitation; Self Help; Technology & Equipment; Transportation; Warm Springs Foundation; Wheelchair | |
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Funding Support Provided By: | NEC Foundation of America |