Description of an artificial hand / By Sir George Cayley.

  • Cayley, George, Sir, 1773-1857.
Date:
1845
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Description of an artificial hand / By Sir George Cayley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fitting of these spherical portions. Any required position of the hand, which is attached to the inner ring, can be secured by a catch and holes to receive it as before. On the centre of this axis the tube D, fig. 3, may be fixed. I am sorry to give you so many dry details, of no interest excepting to workmen, to whom, in fact, this communication is chiefly addressed, and without whose aid those who require the use of this instrument cannot procure it. A much more simple and less costly hand than that worn by George Douseland, at the Polytechnic Institution, might be made, chiefly of wood or bone, for poor persons ; and I hope, that all good workmen, who live by the use of their own hands, will, when called upon to make these humble substitutes for the poor man’s capital, (for so, in fact, the hand is to him,) exercise a generous sympathy towards the sufferer. G. C. PS.—Since the publication of this article in the “Mechanics’ Maga¬ zine,” Mr. Buckingham, of the Colonnade, Grenville-street, Brunswick- square, has practically carried out, in the most expert and ingenious manner, and with several modifications of his own, all the movements of the artificial hand here suggested. Tyler & Reed, Printers, Bolt-court, Fleet-street.