Discover About Electric Wheelchair Advances
The first wheelchair is believed to have been developed in China in the 6th century. The first major technological advances are attributed to two engineers Harry Jennings and Herbert Everest after Everest suffered a broken neck in a mining accident ion 1933. Jennings and Everest combined to create a lightweight, collapsible wheelchair. The pair launched the first mass-producers of wheelchairs. The “x brace” concept developed by the pair is still in use today.
