Professor Meredith Thring and spoke-wheeled chair
Nov. 11, 1972 - Spoke-Wheeled chair for Climbing stairs for invalids : Professor Meredith Thring, of Queen Mary College, London has designed the Spoke-Wheeled climber for invalids who find stairs a bugbear. This test model will move slowly on the level on its 48-spring-loaded spokes and carry a patient safely up a flight of stairs, and down again. Photo shows The inventor Professor Meredith Thring putting his invalid chair through its paces this morning at Queen Mary College, Stratford
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13284675
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47065611
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