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Wheelchair, Prime TC Transport
This is a Wheelchair. It was designed by Michael Graves Architecture & Design and Stryker Medical and manufactured by Stryker Medical.
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Stryker Medical as part of Access+Ability.
This represents a complete rethink of the hospital transport wheelchair. Taking an empathetic approach to its redesign, several “users” were considered, among them the patient, the transporter, and maintenance people. Other issues considered included transferring patients and equipment, patient falls, spread of infection, clinician back strain, nesting storage, lost parts, and theft. Its many articulating parts expand the notion of portability.
It is credited Lent by Stryker Medical.
- Sidewall (possibly USA)
- machine printed with engraved rollers.
- Gift of Aimée and Rosamond Lamb.
- 1973-2-14
- Sidewall (USA)
- machine-printed paper, varnish.
- Gift of Aimée and Rosamond Lamb.
- 1973-2-6
- Sidewall, Artisan Embroidered
- woven and embroidered polyethylene yarn.
- Gift of Carnegie Fabrics.
- 2013-44-1
Our curators have highlighted 10 objects that are related to this one. Here are three of them, selected at random:
- PillPack
- abs/pc resin, silicone.
- Gift of PillPack.
- s-e-2600
- Pill Bottle, AdhereTech Smart Pill Bottle
- plastic, various electronic, computing, and cellular components.
- Gift of AdhereTech.
- s-e-2601
- Sidewall, Veneer Embossed
- woven bio-based polyethylene yarn, heat embossed.
- Gift of Carnegie Fabrics.
- 2013-44-2
Its dimensions are
H x W x D: 185.4 × 69.9 × 110.5 cm (6 ft. 1 in. × 27 1/2 in. × 43 1/2 in.)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Access+Ability.
