| If you are in the market for an electric stair lift, either | | | | available, Henry the Eighth of England got badly injured |
| because of the injury, or because of your realization | | | | in jousting. He is credited with being the first owner of |
| that it is just getting so difficult to get up and down the | | | | a stairlift, which of course was servant-powered. |
| flight of stairs in your lovely home, then you are reading | | | | The Inclin-ator |
| the right report. When you are done reading, you will | | | | Between 1923-1928, C. C. Crispen, a Pennsylvania |
| be better able to making your selection of an electric | | | | entrepreneur, had an idea to design a seat that could |
| chair stair lift. | | | | climb stairs. Thereby he could create a way for his |
| Yes you thought about getting a stair lift before. You | | | | ailing friend to travel from floor to floor in the house. A |
| even got yourself a nice colored brochure. But where | | | | self-taught engineer, Crispen built the first electric |
| is this brochure? Oh, you forgot it upstairs in the | | | | inclining chair in 1923. He called it the Inclin-ator. In 1928 |
| bedroom! Oh no. You have to climb those stairs again! | | | | he went on and designed the first curved stairlift, the |
| At your age, with your condition, this is not only tiring, it | | | | "Elevette". The Inclinator company still exists to this day |
| is down right dangerous. You really need that chair | | | | and prides itself in producing hand-made, industry |
| stair lift! | | | | leading stairlifts. |
| On a serious note, though, time has never been better | | | | 1947 - The beginning of TK Access in Kansas City |
| to look into buying an electric stair lift. The progress of | | | | In 1947, in a lowly Kansas City basement a single |
| civilization has made home stairlifts more and more | | | | unnamed entrepreneur has started the American |
| functional and affordable. Perhaps a little history will | | | | Stair-Glide company, producing electric stairlifts. This |
| help you choose your own chair stair lift more wisely: | | | | later became the TK Access, the largest producer of |
| Henry the Eighth, the first owner of a stairlift | | | | electric stairlifts in the world today. |
| In the times before the electricity was even widely | | | | |