How Did Our Ancestors Move Granny - A History of Wheelchairs (and Similar)


Somebody posted on social media asking what disabled people did before wheelchairs were invented.
Which, of course, sent me down a rabbithole. Turns out "before wheelchairs were invented" is likely longer ago than you thought.
We know wheelchairs existed in both Europe and Asia in the 6th century. But how did we get to the modern wheelchair?
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