Chuck,

We would love to have your chair to use as either a static display or (if
it's in operating condition) as a riding exhibit in our new exhibition
opening this summer. The exhibition is titled "Where There's a Wheel,
There's a Way" and it's subject is the invention and evolution of man's
greatest invention -- the Wheel. It will have many examples of man's
ingenuity over the ages using wheels for transport and in machines. The
show's logo contains a graphic of Thor, the wheel rider in the B.C. comic
strip, generously provided by the cartoonist, Johnny Hart.

We will have about 15 riding exhibits, a dozen or so static displays such as
a spinning wheel, a potters wheel, a water wheel, a windmill, etc.,
historical and graphic posters, videos, an invention corner with lots of
parts to invent and construct machines that use wheels (Ed Sobey's idea), a
jukebox playing 20th century songs about cars and bicycles, interactive
kiosks with questions/answers about uses of the wheel, factoids on unusual
uses of the wheel, etc., and weekend shows by local classic car collectors,
model train enthusiasts, skateboard demos, highwheel bicycle and unicycle
demos, monster truck demos, and many other outside groups.

The riding exhibitions include a square-wheeled electric-powered cart moving
smoothly on a track made of inverted consecutive catenaries, a Coriolis
merry-go-round, a pedal-powered Ferris wheel, a BatMobile rocket cart using
an electric leaf blower for propulsion, a treadle-powered old-fashioned
movie (a Zoetrope), and the centerpiece of the whole shebang, a Segway Human
Transporter.

Please contact me by email to arrange shipping your chair.

Dr. Paul O. Johnson
Senior Exhibit Developer
The Science Place
Dallas  Texas
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Watkins" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 9:15 AM
Subject: Wheelchair


> Our museum was recently offered (and turned down) a turn of the 20th
> century wheelchair, with a high back and three wheels - two at the front
> and a rear one.  Not knowing the rarity of such, I wonder if there is
> anyone out there in museum-land desperately seeking one of these.  It
> remains available and in North Carolina.
> Regards,
> Chuck Watkins
> The Appalachian Cultural Museum
> Boone, NC  28608  (828)262-3117
>
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