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Date of birth
He was born in 1951, in Rockville center, Long Island, New York. His father was a illistrator for Weird Science And MAd Comic Books; Evelyn, was a teacher. -
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Dean Kamen's life
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College
After high school he attended Worceester polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. -
Kamen leaving college
In 1976 Kamen left WPI without graduating and founded his own company called Autosyringe to sell his medication device. Which is a machine that provides accurate continuous infusion -
FIRST
Established FIRST in 1989 because he wanted kids to be excited about science.This is a compitetion where you have to build a robot to do certain things. -
New company
In 1991 he founded another company called DEKA -
Home choice
Kamen invented a portable kidney dialysis machine called home choice, which is used to purify blood. -
Ibot 300
In 1999 he wowed the world with a machine he called the iBot 300 Mobility system, a stairclimbing wheelchair. -
Segway
He invented the segway. This machine is a self balancing super scooter -
Slingshot
This is a machine that purified water. -
Recall
The segway was recalledbecause riders was fallen off when the batteries went dead. -
Spreading the slingshot around the world
He visited the African countriesof Rwanda and Bangladesh to demonstrate his new machine. -
Unsuccessful
The segway was not successful only six thousand machines sold, one reason was because the price was so high.
