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20 hours ago · In 1933, he and Harry Jennings founded the Everest and Jennings Company. It improved the wheelchair, making a folding X-frame for the first folding wheelchair. The 1930s also saw sports wheelchairs, which showed how personal ambition can cause technological advancements. Then, in 1950, George Klein invented the electric wheelchair.
20 hours ago · Twenty-three people were killed, and over 100 more were injured. The disaster remains the deadliest accident at a sporting event in U.S. history. Adelbert S. Hay: 23 June 1901 The 24-year-old American consul and politician died after falling 60 feet (18 m) from a window in the New Haven House in New Haven, Connecticut.
