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Until the discovery of the Cairo toe, the earliest tangible evidence of prosthetics was an artificial limb found in a grave in Capua, Italy, dating from 300 B.C. The original bronze leg was ...
Surgeons, gunpowder and the printing press Early modern surgeons passionately debated where and how to cut the body to remove fingers, toes, arms and legs in ways medieval surgeons hadn’t.
Come to think of it, throw in a wooden peg leg, it probably would help level the playing field. Federer is old-school in a substantial way, and his image hardly does justice to that, even if his ...
Do you have 835 servo motors sitting around? Why not build your own binary wood-pixel-display-device? Using the same basic concept as a DMD (Digital Micromirror Device) — the heart of all DLP ...
George Eyser made history when he won six medals in just one day at the 1904 Olympic Games - with a wooden leg. It was some 56 years before the Paralympics were first debuted, meaning those with ...
I always assume those estimates are based on people traveling with a wooden pirate peg leg and tantruming toddler who has recently insisted they can walk alone. (Never let them – I am certain ...