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Segway Inc. is a Chinese owned, formerly American manufacturer of two-wheeled personal transporters, chiefly through its Segway PT and Segway miniPro product lines. Founded by inventor Dean Kamen in 1999, the company's name is a homophone of the word " segue ".
It was brought to market in 2001 as the Segway HT, and then subsequently as the Segway PT. HT is an initialism for "human transporter" and PT for "personal transporter." Ninebot, a Beijing-based transportation robotics startup rival, acquired Segway Inc. in April 2015, broadening the company to include other transportation devices. In June 2020 ...
It could be a company's worst marketing nightmare: its owner dying while using its product. But for Segway, the death of owner Jimi Heselden, 62, may become a more dire issue. Heselden's death ...
James William "Jimi" Heselden OBE (27 March 1948 – 26 September 2010) was an English entrepreneur. [1] [2] A former coal miner, he became wealthy by manufacturing the Hesco bastion barrier system.
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Kamen is a member of the USA Science and Engineering Festival's Advisory Board [53] and is also a member of the Xconomists, an ad hoc team of editorial advisors for the tech news and media company, Xconomy. [54] He is also on the Board of Trustees of the X Prize Foundation. Dean of Invention, a TV show on Planet Green, premiered on October 22 ...
As far as I can see the company's website title (and most other sources, example) appear indeed to call it just "Segway" but do also say "Segway PT" and "Segway Personal Transport". However its difficult to tell if these are referring to the company of transporter. Crouch, Swale (talk) 07:13, 4 January 2019 (UTC) Support.