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This fashion for wheelchair came in 1840 when Queen Victoria - mother nine children, she wanted to walk with their kids on the royal park.Soon the fashion spread in all the carriages aristocratic circles in Europe.In the first chairs to the basket or box attached to a three-or four-wheel drive, and fasten a special pen, so that it could carry along.
In the carriages harnessed pony, goat or dog, so they rolled the children.Were high on thin stroller wheels, so it was easy to roll on a bad road, and low on small wheels that are best traveled on a flat surface.
Carriages made to order, and in form, they were like transportation for adults - coaches and the coaches.June 18, 1889 at the Baltimore patent office, William Richardson came up with the idea that took place with the next revolution in the history of wheelchairs.
He devised a model of reversible stroller, etc.e.child could sit in it as a face-to vozivshemu wheelchair and back to him.In addition, William has included in its model of the axis, which added a wheelchair maneuverability.Up until the time axis and the wheels-piece that did not allow them to rotate separately.
Wheels in the stroller Richardson could rotate 360 degrees completely independently of each other.Since then, the stroller passed through the entire evolution, from being a cumbersome structure which is opposed by that time, pediatricians, a convenient means of transportation.
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