{"id":357,"date":"2010-10-04T08:14:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T06:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=357"},"modified":"2015-11-26T04:20:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T02:20:41","slug":"historical-prosthetic-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Historical prosthetic arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Via <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemuseum.org.uk\/online_science\/explore_our_collections\/objects\/index\/smxg-8087297\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Science Museum<\/strong><\/a><strong>,\u00a0Object number\u00a0A602817<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Made from steel and brass, this unusual prosthetic arm articulates in a number of ways. The elbow joint can be moved by releasing a spring, whereas the top joint of the wrist allows a degree of rotation and an up-and-down motion. The fingers can also curl up and straighten out. The leather upper arm piece is used to fix the prosthesis to the remaining upper arm. The rather sinister appearance of the hand suggests the wearer may have disguised it with a glove. Among the most common causes of amputation throughout the 1800s were injuries received as a result of warfare.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/history\/museum1l.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"margin-right: 600px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/history\/museum1small.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image 1: dorsal view<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/history\/museum2l.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"margin-right: 600px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/history\/museum2small.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image 2: ventral view<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/history\/museum3l.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"margin-right: 600px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/history\/museum3small.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image 3: overview<\/p>\n<p>Images \u00a9 Science Museum, London\/ Science &amp; Society Picture Library<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=swisswuff\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Science Museum,\u00a0Object number\u00a0A602817: Made from steel and brass, this unusual prosthetic arm articulates in a number of ways. The elbow joint can be moved by releasing a spring, whereas the top joint of the wrist allows a degree of rotation and an up-and-down motion. The fingers can also curl up and straighten out. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-prosthetics","wpcat-97-id","wpcat-8-id"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 14:08:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5587,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/5587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}