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Special Driving Control Created For President Roosevelt
IN 1933 the DeSoto Motor Corporation delivered to President Franklin D. Roosevelt a convertible sedan which is so constructed that it can be driven without any use of the feet whatsoever....
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Title: Special Driving Control Created For President Roosevelt
Creator: n/a
Date: February 1934
Format: Article
Publication: The Polio Chronicle
Source: Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Archives
Location: p.5
Keywords: Accessibility; Assistive Technology; Automobile; Corporation; Desoto Motor Corporation; Diagnoses & Diseases; Disease; Economics; Eleanor Roosevelt; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Georgia; Hand Controls; Health & Medicine; Institutions; Inventions; Physical Disability; Polio; Politics; Rehabilitation; Technology & Equipment; Transportation; Warm Springs Foundation
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Physical Environment; Science, Health & Technology
Funding Support Provided By: NEC Foundation of America


Objects From This Artifact:
- Special Driving Control Created For President Roosevelt (doc)
- View Of Refined Control (still)