2015 Thailand Exhibition

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2024-03-14

China's oldest record of a wheelchair, archaeologists found a pattern of a wheelchair in a sarcophagus portrait dated around 1600 BC.
 
First recorded in Europe in medieval times the wheel Barrow (other forward, closer to the modern care type wheelchair)
 
In the history of wheelchairs, the earliest record of sarcophagi carved by wheelchairs in southern and northern dynasties of China (525) is also the predecessor of modern wheelchairs. (bottom left)
 
In the 16th century, during the Renaissance, King Philippe Puls of Spain suffered a stroke while boarding a wooden wheelchair.
 
Around the 18th century, wheelchairs of near-modern design appeared. It consists of two large wooden front and back single small wheels, and the middle matching consists of a chair with armrests.
 
The American Civil War there were rattan, lightweight wheelchairs with metal wheels.
 
After the end of World War I, the United States used wheelchairs for injuries, weighing about 50 pounds. Shortly after the addition of a power drive unit, a manual three-wheeled wheelchair was developed in the UK.
 
In 1932, a disabled paraplegic named Herbert Everest (hebotee) and his friend Harry Jennings (Henryj) invented the first modern folding wheelchair and founded the E & J company.
 
The E & J wheelchair frame is formed from aviation metal tubing and is equipped with a canvas chair.
 
After World War II, the United States began rationing injured 18-inch chrome steel E & J wheelchairs. The size of the wheelchair required varies depending on the individual concept.
 
After the Second World War, British Sir Ludwig Guttman (slGutman) began the concept of wheelchair sports as a rehabilitation tool, with good results in his hospital. To his excitement, he played in 1948 [British Disabled Veterans Sport]. The 1952 International Competition.

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