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2. Walking stick - Wikipedia

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   A walking stick (also known as a walking cane, cane, walking staff, or staff) is a device used primarily to aid walking, provide postural stability or support, or assist in maintaining a good posture. Some designs also serve as a fashion accessory, or are used for self-defense.

3. Walker (mobility) - Wikipedia

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   Walking frames have two front wheels, and there are also wheeled walkers available having three or four wheels, also known as rollators. Walkers started appearing in the early 1950s. The first US patent was awarded in 1953 to William Cribbes Robb, of Stretford, UK, for a device called "walking aid", which had been filed with the British patent ...

4. Mecanum wheel - Wikipedia

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   A Mecanum wheel is an omnidirectional wheel design for a land-based vehicle to move in any direction. It is sometimes called the Swedish wheel or Ilon wheel after its inventor, Bengt Erland Ilon (1923–2008), [ 1 ] who conceived of the concept while working as an engineer with the Swedish company Mecanum AB, and patented it in the United ...

5. Wheelchair - Wikipedia

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   The addition of geared, all-mechanical wheels for manual wheelchairs is a new development incorporating a hypocycloidal reduction gear into the wheel design. The 2-gear wheels can be added to a manual wheelchair. The geared wheels provide a user with additional assistance by providing leverage through gearing (like a bicycle, not a motor).

6. Cane - Wikipedia

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   Cane or caning may refer to: Walking stick, or walking cane, a device used primarily to aid walking; Assistive cane, a walking stick used as a mobility aid for better balance; White cane, a mobility or safety device used by blind or visually impaired people; An implement used in caning, a form of corporal punishment; Sugarcane; Cane (surname)

7. Litter (vehicle) - Wikipedia

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   A Turkish sedan chair (tahtırevan), 1893 The Japanese Princess Mune's 18th-century palanquin (norimono), with an arabesque design in maki-e lacquer A late-18th-century English sedan chair at Eaton Hall