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Who invented wheelchairs?

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  • by Bobbie Johnson on February 5th, 2010

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    The concept of chairs with wheels goes back to ancient China where engravings dating to 525 A.D. show the earliest representations of the wheelchair. Precursors to the modern self-propelled wheelchair were invented by a 22-year-old paraplegic named Stephen Farfler in 1655.

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