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A design drawing of a clutch and braking mechanism.
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Title: Arthur Carpenter's Controls
From: "Home, Franklin"
Original caption: By pressing down on the button, the brake is engaged and by operating the lever with out pressing the button, works only the clutch, this is accomplished by the sliding bar shown in the illustration.
Operating Button
Sliding Pin
Flexible Cable
Arthur Carpenter's control allows choice of clutch and clutch-brake operation.
Creator:  Architectural and Mechanical Hints Group (authors)
Date: October 1933
Format: Illustration
Publication: The Polio Chronicle
Source: Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation Archives
Location: p.4
Keywords: Accessibility; Assistive Technology; Automobile; Disease; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Georgia; Government; Hand Controls; Health & Medicine; Institutions; Inventions; Physical Disability; Polio; Politics; Rehabilitation; Self Help; 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:
- "Home, Franklin" (doc)
- Arthur Carpenter's Controls (still)
- Dr. DelMarcelle's Controls (still)
- Installation Of Dr. DelMarcelle's Car (still)
- Richard McFeeley's Controls (still)
- Roosevelt At The Wheel (still)