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Dean Lawrence Kamen (/ ˈ k eɪ m ɪ n /; born April 5, 1951) is an American engineer, inventor, and businessman. He is known for his invention of the Segway and iBOT, [2] as well as founding the non-profit organization FIRST with Woodie Flowers. [3] [4] Kamen holds over 1,000 patents. [5]
James William "Jimi" Heselden OBE (27 March 1948 – 26 September 2010) was an English entrepreneur. [1] [2] A former coal miner, he became wealthy by manufacturing the Hesco bastion barrier system.
It could be a company's worst marketing nightmare: its owner dying while using its product. But for Segway, the death of owner Jimi Heselden, 62, may become a more dire issue. Heselden's death ...
It was brought to market in 2001 as the Segway HT, and then subsequently as the Segway PT. HT is an initialism for "human transporter" and PT for "personal transporter." Ninebot, a Beijing -based transportation robotics startup rival, acquired Segway Inc. in April 2015, broadening the company to include other transportation devices.
The death of Franz Reichelt (d. 1912), who jumped off the Eiffel Tower expecting his contraption to act as a parachute. Ismail ibn Hammad al-Jawhari (died c. 1003–1010), a Kazakh Turkic scholar from Farab, attempted to fly using two wooden wings and a rope. He leapt from the roof of a mosque in Nishapur and fell to his death. [5]
Segway Inc. is a Chinese owned, formerly American manufacturer of two-wheeled personal transporters, chiefly through its Segway PT and Segway miniPro product lines. Founded by inventor Dean Kamen in 1999, the company's name is a homophone of the word " segue ".
It's becoming a myth, a lot of people seem to be telling the story as being the inventor of Segway.Matt J User|Talk 15:53, 28 September 2010 (UTC) In either case, it doesn't belong in both. Lilyology 12:39, 13 March 2011 (UTC) I added it back in because the "myths" section now covers related stories.
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