Claim: Stephen Hawking's thesis and wheelchair sell for $1 million.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Stephen Hawking
text: University, 1965) and wheelchair, took place, and fetched about £1.8m (more than $2.3m). Proceeds from the auction sale of the wheelchair are to go to two charities, the Motor Neurone Disease Association and the Stephen Hawking Foundation,; proceeds from Hawking's other items are to go to his estate. In 2006, Hawking posed an open question on the Internet: "In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?", later clarifying: "I don't know the answer. That is why I asked the question, to get people to think about it, and

title: Leveraged Freedom Chair
text: price point of US$2,195, which sold out. Leveraged Freedom Chair The Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC) is an all-terrain wheelchair made from bicycle parts. Amos Winter, a PHD graduate from MIT, travelled to Tanzania during his work, and found that conventional wheelchairs are inadequate in areas without wheelchair accessible roads and buildings. He and his students from his mechanical engineering class worked together on the development of the project. The tests of the LFC were conducted in East Africa, Guatemala and India. In addition to a normal wheelchair pushrim, the wheelchair has a lever drivetrain that lets the user grip the

title: Erwin Tomash
text: in September 2018. The copy of Galileo's "Difesa contro alle Calunnie et Imposture di Baldessar Capra Milanese" (1607), with a handwritten inscription by Galileo, sold for £466,000 (US$616,378). The Adelle and Erwin Tomash Fellowship in the History of Information Technology is awarded to a graduate student for doctoral dissertation research in the history of computing. The fellowship is to be held at the recipient's home academic institution, the Charles Babbage Institute, or any other location with appropriate research facilities. It is intended for students who have completed all requirements for the doctoral degree except the research and writing of the

title: Stephen Hawking
text: smartphone keyboards. By 2009 he could no longer drive his wheelchair independently, but the same people who created his new typing mechanics were working on a method to drive his chair using movements made by his chin. This proved difficult, since Hawking could not move his neck, and trials showed that while he could indeed drive the chair, the movement was sporadic and jumpy. Near the end of his life, Hawking experienced increased breathing difficulties, often resulting in his requiring the usage of a ventilator, and being regularly hospitalised. Starting in the 1990s, Hawking accepted the mantle of role model

title: Leveraged Freedom Chair
text: torque on rough terrain.The levers can be removed and stored on the chair, allowing it to be used like a normal wheelchair indoors. The wheelchairs are designed to be produced at low cost from commonly available bicycle parts, and to be repaired and maintained at local bicycle shops. The chair is developed by a group called Global Research Innovation & Technology. The chair is sold at around US $250 to NGOs, less than the price of common wheelchairs. The GRIT Freedom Chair is an off-road sports chair designed for the developed world. The product launched on Kickstarter with a lowest

title: Stephen Hawking
text: the Universe" (2008). Hawking also guest-starred in "Futurama" and "The Big Bang Theory". Hawking allowed the use of his copyrighted voice in the biographical 2014 film "The Theory of Everything", in which he was portrayed by Eddie Redmayne in an Academy Award-winning role. Hawking was featured at the "Monty Python Live (Mostly)" in 2014. He was shown to sing an extended version of the Galaxy Song, after running down Brian Cox with his wheelchair, in a pre-recorded video. Hawking used his fame to advertise products, including a wheelchair, National Savings, British Telecom, Specsavers, Egg Banking, and Go Compare. In 2015

title: Stephen Hawking
text: for disabled people, lecturing and participating in fundraising activities. At the turn of the century, he and eleven other luminaries signed the "Charter for the Third Millennium on Disability", which called on governments to prevent disability and protect the rights of the disabled. In 1999, Hawking was awarded the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society. In August 2012, Hawking narrated the "Enlightenment" segment of the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony in London. In 2013, the biographical documentary film "Hawking", in which Hawking himself is featured, was released. In September 2013, he expressed support for the legalisation of

title: Kuno Goda
text: contemporary artwork for digital currency. The work is dedicated to anonymous bitcoin protocol creator Satoshi Nakamoto. In March 2014 the work was sold to a Seattle businessman for an undisclosed amount. The Wall Street Journal reported a selling price of $125.000 but the artist later clarified that the price was much lower. His Ethereum-related work "Glideth" features all four permutations of the renowned hacker emblem the "Glider", hand-printed on a copper-clad plate.<br> On World Press Freedom Day 2016 he published a book called "Tell All - How To Bypass Media Censorship". As a commentary to book censorship, the book itself

title: Helmut Friedlaender
text: up over the previous 30 years was put up for sale, totaling 559 lots. Among the items sold were Cicero's "De Officiis", printed in 1465 and one of the first classical works ever printed, sold for $666,000. An illuminated manuscript from Bohemia of St. Gregory's "Moralia in Job" from the 14th century that retained its original doeskin binding, sold for $248,000. After the auction was held, Friedlaender would repurchase some of the items on the open market. The managing director of the London bookshop Bernard Quaritch said that Friedlaender would look at these items as lost children and say "I’m

title: John L. Marion
text: of his career, he oversaw the sale of "Irises" by Vincent van Gogh for US$53.9 million, "Yo Picasso" for US$47.9 million and "Au Lapin Agile" for US$40.7 million (both of which by Pablo Picasso), as well as "Interchange" by Willem de Kooning for US$20.7 million, and "False Start" for US$17 million and "Two Flags" US$12.1 million (both of which are by Jasper Johns). In 1989, with Christopher Andersen, he co-wrote, "The Best of Everything: The Insider's Guide to Collecting--For Every Taste and Every Budget", published by Simon & Schuster. The book suggests anyone can attend auctions and become a collector,

title: Vanderbilt exoskeleton
text: productivity for each paraplegic ranges from US$1.4 million to $2.2 million. However, since the late 2000s, robotics and battery technology have become sufficiently advanced to make wearable walking assistance devices viable. The Vanderbilt exoskeleton weighs and can support users weighing up to . It is strapped to the user's legs, and uses an onboard computer to detect the user's movements, which are then supported and amplified by battery-powered motors in the exoskeleton's hip and knee joints. It also uses functional electrical stimulation to enervate the muscles of paralyzed patients, improving their strength and circulation, and can be quickly disassembled for

title: Bidoun
text: a Justin Bieber hairball sold at auction for $40,668, Bidoun extended this covetous logic to the rarified realm of art, proffering such miscellanies as Jeremy Deller's iPod Mini, Lawrence Weiner's gold tooth, Hans-Ulrich Obrist’s abused passport, and a 1638 edition of Burton’s "The Anatomy of Melancholy" defaced by Orhan Pamuk. Other items included Tony Shafrazi’s prescription drugs, a rock signed by Robert Smithson, Douglas Gordon’s house keys, Yto Barrada’s third grade report card, Hal Foster’s breath mints, Cindy Sherman’s eyeliner, Tala Madani’s body lotion, Wade Guyton’s Nikes, Anicka Yi’s brain, Julie Mehretu’s golf ball, Bjarne Melgaard’s Christmas card from a

title: Jordan Nguyen
text: in 2008 with a Bachelor of Engineering and First Class Honours. In 2012, he completed his PhD in Biomedical Engineering, and was awarded into the UTS Chancellor's List. For his PhD project, Nguyen developed a mind-controlled wheelchair for people with high-level physical disability. The wheelchair used cameras to observe its surroundings and provided navigation assistance to the operator whilst scanning the user's retinas as the means of delivering commands. Ranked third in an Australian top innovations list and winning UTS's Three Minute Thesis Competition, the smart wheelchair gained attention across radio stations, magazines, newspapers, and a number of TV programs,

title: Stephen Hawking
text: book was translated into many languages, and ultimately sold an estimated 9million copies. Media attention was intense, and a "Newsweek" magazine cover and a television special both described him as "Master of the Universe". Success led to significant financial rewards, but also the challenges of celebrity status. Hawking travelled extensively to promote his work, and enjoyed partying and dancing into the small hours. A difficulty refusing the invitations and visitors left him limited time for work and his students. Some colleagues were resentful of the attention Hawking received, feeling it was due to his disability. He received further academic recognition,

title: João Teixeira de Faria
text: A woman in a wheelchair with multiple sclerosis, who in the 1998 report said she visited Faria with the expectation of walking again, didn’t feel any effect, is still in a wheelchair, and suffered a deterioration in her condition. Her trip to the Casa cost $5,000. Usher reported that none of the other people (forty Australians) who made the pilgrimage that Hayes joined for investigation improved. Usher’s report said that some of the thousands in Faria's audience hope to receive “spiritual surgery” from him. In an extended interview, emergency medicine specialist Dr. David Rosengren personally examined and reported these practices

title: Joshua Glenn
text: have seen for ages." The project resulted in $128.74 worth of objects being sold for $3,612.51. Two subsequent “volumes” of Significant Objects stories raised funds for the tutoring programs 826 National and Girls Write Now. Fantagraphics published a collection of Significant Objects stories in 2011. Glenn and Malcolm Evans, a British semiotician, launched Semionaut in 2010, an international website about semiotic cultural and brand analysis, with contributors from Brazil, China, Germany, India, Japan, Russia and Saudi Arabia. In 2011, Glenn and Mark Kingwell published "The Wage Slave's Glossary", which "looks at the language we use to make sense of the

title: Stephen Hawking
text: software to help his mother-in-law, who also suffered from ALS and had lost her ability to speak and write. In a method he used for the rest of his life, Hawking could now simply press a switch to select phrases, words or letters from a bank of about 2,500–3,000 that were scanned. The program was originally run on a desktop computer. Elaine Mason's husband, David, a computer engineer, adapted a small computer and attached it to his wheelchair. Released from the need to use somebody to interpret his speech, Hawking commented that "I can communicate better now than before I

title: David L. Hawk
text: of the world's leading researchers into international entrepreneurship thus attracting $2 million for a Chair in NJ Entrepreneurship that Hawk refused to use for an athletics expansion on campus, 5) for spending $415 on mini bar expenses in a Beijing Hotel, that turned out to be $30 and was for bottles of coke and Evian Water, not any alcohol. NJIT legal team continued to argue that Evian is French Liquor, not water, and that China uses US Dollars as its currency, not Yuan. NJIT pressed another 20 charges like these against Hawk, then resorted to "hiring" a NJ judge via

title: Steven A. Cohen
text: by famous artists—including a Pollock drip painting from David Geffen for $52 million and Damien Hirst's "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", a piece that the artist had bought back from Charles Saatchi for $8 million. He has purchased some unusual art works. In 2006, Cohen remarked that repairing his suspended shark artwork (Hirst's "Physical Impossiblity"), a cost estimated to be a minimum of $100,000, was an "inconsequential" expense. Since the original shark was over 10 years old, it had begun to rot. It was replaced with another shark in 2006. Cohen has also placed

title: Charles Spurgeon
text: William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri purchased Spurgeon's 5,103-volume library collection for £500 ($2500) in 1906. The collection was purchased by Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri in 2006 for $400,000 and can be seen on display at the Spurgeon Center on the campus of Midwestern Seminary. A special collection of Spurgeon's handwritten sermon notes and galley proofs from 1879–91 resides at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Spurgeon's College in London also has a small number of notes and proofs. Spurgeon's works have been translated into many languages and Moon's and Braille type for the blind. He also