Electric Wheelchair

(1956) Invented by George Johann Klein (19041992) 1 A typical collaboration is at the core of thousands of innovations in the healthcare engineering field and more than a few involve Klein. But one of the most vivid examples a is the development of the first massproduced electric wheelchair — a design known in its day as “The Klein Chair.” The story begins with the discovery and refinement of penicillin, which dramatically reduced the number of fatalities from wartime t spinal cord injuries.