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Was this the right invention at the wrong time?
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August 12, 2026
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0:28Now PlayingIn 1959, Louis Richards, a graduate student at the Illinois Institute of Design, built the Skeeter, a motorized scooter powered by a model airplane engine and mounted on roller skate wheels. It was visionary personal mobility: compact, nimble, and exactly the kind of invention that should have disrupted transportation. Yet it never went to market. The problem wasn't the design, but the era.
In the 1950s, commuting wasn't broken enough to fix. Cars were becoming affordable, suburbs were expanding, and most people had no reason to need a foldable scooter that they can pack in their bags. The Skeeter sat in the archives but eventually reiterated and become the modern scooters that we know presently.
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