RE: Ben Zimmer - CEO, Priovant Therapeutics - Novel Therapies For Severe Autoimmune Diseases8 Sep 2024 14:38
"the modern walking frame was invented by William Cribbes Robb in the UK. In the latter half of the 1940s, William Cribbes Robb created the walking frame, which was a basic yet effective design.
An American company called Zimmer Holdings improved on the William Cribbes Robb model to create the ‘Zimmer Frame’, which was significantly more effective and easier to use."
hence the term we use today.