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Aggregating key points in the history of one wheel electric skateboards (both proprietary and open source), and of the community surrounding the sport.

On October 16, 2001...

Automatically Balancing Vehicles are Invented

Dean Kamen, Robert Ambrogi, Robert Duggan, J. Field, Richard Heinzmann, Burl Amesbury, and Christopher Langenfeld invent automatically balancing vehicles.

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