Wheelchair
notes: label: Description
content: Harry Jennings was a mechanical engineer in West Los Angeles who in 1933, at the behest of his friend Herbert Everest, a paralyzed mining engineer, designed a lightweight wheelchair that was rigid in use but that could be folded for transport. Everest and Jennings filed for a patent in 1937 and began in business as Everest & Jennings soon thereafter. Inscription on this example read "Everest & Jennings Co. serial # 126804" and "No. 9, 1955, 24V DC."
label: Description
content: Ref: Herbert A. Everest and Harry C. Jennings, “Folding Propulsion Wheel Chair,” U.S. Patent 2,181,420 (Nov. 28, 1939).
label: Description
content: “Business Rolls Along at Wheelchair Firm,” Los Angeles Times (Sept. 18, 1977), p. H3.
label: Description
content: “Wheelchair Makers vs. Critics,” New York Times (Feb. 12, 1981), pp. D2-D2.
label: Description
content: “Funeral Rites Set Today for H. C. Jennings,” Los Angeles Times (Oct. 25, 1964), p. 15.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Veterans Administration
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0648.03
label: accession number
content: 1979.0648
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0648.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Wheelchair
label: Other Terms
content: Wheelchair; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: stainless steel; cotton; wood; leather; hard rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 37 1/2 in x 25 in x 41 in; 95.25 cm x 63.5 cm x 104.14 cm
label: Measurements
content: wheelchair: 60 cm x 104 cm x 95 cm; 23 5/8 in x 40 15/16 in x 37 13/32 in