The Wheel Chair

1. The Wheel Chair By: Name was Here

2. WHO • The people who had invented the first ever wheel chair were the Greek people combining furniture and wheels.

3. What • The invention is the wheel chair

4. Where • In China there is a stone plate telling where the first wheelchair was found. It was an image that was on a Greek vase. The image was underneath a child's bed combining wheels with furniture found in 530 b.c.!

5. Why • People need the wheel chair because if there is an accident and someone is paralyzed and the person’s legs can’t move they can sit in the wheel chair and use there arms to move the wheels in a circular rotation and move around when their legs can’t work.

6. When • The image on the vase was a record showing that the wheel chair was created in 530 b.c.!

7. HOW • How the invention works is the person in the wheel chair uses their arms to move the wheels in a circular rotation which causes the wheels to move the chair forward and to make turns they use the wheels as if the wheels were a car tire and use their arms as the steering wheel to move from side to side. Now a days the wheel chair is automatic and is used by a little remote manually operated by the person in the wheel chair or if the persons arms are disabled then someone else would be kind hearted enough to push them around.

8. Sources • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelchair • My life experiences! • http://www.wheelchairnet.org/wcn_wcu/slidelectures/sawatzky/wc_history.html