In celebration of National AccessAbility Week here is this weeks fact:
"The first electric wheelchair was developed by one of Canada's most accomplished inventors, George Klein, in 1953. The Ontario-born inventor worked at the National Research Council from 1929–1969, where he developed the electric wheelchair, aircraft skis, the M29 Weasel army snowmobile/ATV, the microsurgical staple gun, the ZEEP nuclear reactor, a scientific language for snow and other feats of mechanical engineering." (Bourgeois-Doyle, 2017)
Reference:
Bourgeois-Doyle, D. (2017, January 25). The Maker: George Klein and the first electric wheelchair. Retrieved from University of Toronto Engineering News : https://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/maker-george-klein-first-electric-wheelchair/