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A limbless Greenwich Pensioner, smoking a pipe, someone else fitting an artificial leg for him. Wood engraving.
Reference: 32772i- Pictures
A creature with a long tongue and an artificial leg. Colour lithograph, 1980.
Date: [1980]Reference: 2001877i- Pictures
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J. Luce de Lancival, a professor and poet, with an artificial leg walking with a group of men. Etching.
Reference: 23103i- Digital Images
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Artificial lower leg with laced leather thigh socket. Made by W. R. Grossmith for amputation for the knee.
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Simple wooden leg - Henry Heather Bigg
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A man sells a woman an artificial leg at national health service prices. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, c. 1901.
Dorville, Noël, 1874-1938.Reference: 17013i- Pictures
A poor mother and four children leave a temple in an ancient city; a cloaked man with a stick walks behind them; a boy follows using an artificial leg and crutches. Etching by Michel Corneille, ca. 1666, after Annibale or Lodovico Carracci.
Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609.Date: [1754]Reference: 589687i- Pictures
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Artificial limb factory in Rome: six women working at benches, one using a sewing machine and one stitching the back of a full-length leg. Photograph, 1914/1918.
Studio Leonardi (Rome, Italy)Date: 1914Reference: 35966i- Ephemera
John Sewers : well known in several parts of Europe, who lately lived in Cow-Lane, London, now liveth in Little St. Helens by Leather-Sellers-Hall, near Bishopgate-Street, though to the prejudice of many, as well as himself, some have maliciously reported, he was dead : He still maketh all sorts of artificial legs, for all conditions.
Sewers, John.Date: 1710- Books
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Specification of Alfred Vincent Newton : artificial legs.
Newton, A. V. (Alfred Vincent), 1820-1900.Date: 1867- Books
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Specification of Thomas Partridge Salt : artificial legs.
Salt, Thomas Partridge.Date: 1855- Books
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Specification of William Edward Newton : artificial legs.
Newton, William Edward.Date: 1857- Books
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Specification of Henry Heather Bigg : artificial legs.
Bigg, Henry Heather.Date: 1869- Pictures
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Prostheses: two men with artificial limbs demonstrating their comparative agility by climbing gymnasium bars at St. Thomas' Hospital, London: the man on the left wears a new type of prosthesis. Photograph, ca. 1920.
Date: 1920Reference: 578100i- Books
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Specification of John Ashman : artificial legs and arms.
Ashman, John.Date: 1859- Books
Specification of Henry Wilms : artificial limbs.
Wilms, Henry.Date: 1857- Books
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Specification of John Henry Johnson : artificial legs and feet.
Johnson, John Henry.Date: 1858- Books
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Hints on the use of an artificial limb.
Great Britain. Ministry of Pensions.Date: [1949]- Books
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Argument in behalf of the extension of the patent of B. Frank Palmer for an improvement in artificial legs, dated November 4th. 1846 before the Hon. Philip F. Thomas, Commissioner of Patents : hearing, 22d October, 1860 / by Charles F. Stansbury.
Stansbury, Charles F.Date: [1860?]- Books
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Drake's patent artificial legs, hands, arms, &c.
Drake, John S.Date: [1859?]- Books
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Improvements in artificial legs.
The American Artificial Leg Company.Date: 1902- Books
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The Palmer arm and leg : adopted for the U.S. Army and Navy by the Surgeon-General, U.S.A., and by the Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery : manufactured only under the direction of the inventor and patentee / B. Frank Palmer.
Palmer, B. Frank (Benjamin Franklin)Date: [1865]- Pictures
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A satyr with a wooden leg. Gouache.
Reference: 567156i- Books
The department of mad scientists : how DARPA is remaking our world, from the internet to artificial limbs / Michael Belfiore.
Belfiore, Michael P., 1969-Date: [2009], ©2009- Pictures
A cat with a wooden front leg. Photograph, ca. 1920 (?).
Date: 1920Reference: 578146i