Artificial limbs from 1900 were decades ahead of their time

July 26, 2015 Posted By: Leave a comment
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The genius Gepetto of prosthetic devices
Mark Rowley

James Gillingham ran an ordinary shoemaking business, the Golden Boot, in Chard, England. In 1866, he met a man who had lost an arm in a cannon mishap and had been told by doctors...

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