Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1892 — ROLLING CHAIRS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ROLLING CHAIRS

Make It Possible for the Physically Disabled to Go the Bounds. You can press a button and take a seat and ride in an electric rolling chair at the World’s Fair. It has been decided that no carriages will be allowed within the grounds, and some means of conveyance must be provided for those who are physically unable to meet the exertion of walking through all the departments. In this emergency another “button” device has been provided. It is in the shape of an electric tricycle with a chair frame. The tricycle will be opeiated by electricity. A storage battery will be

hung under the chair, and from it power will be transmitted to the wheels. It will only be necessary to take a seat in the chair, press a button, and the battery will do the rest. The vehicle will be steered by means of a small front wheel governed by a lever. The battery is warranted to last fourteen hours without recharging, so that there will bo no danger of its balking at an unfortunate moment. The machines will be rented at so much an hour, the Exposition sharing in the profits.

ELECTRIC ROLLING CHAIR.