Certified prosthetist Robert Kuenzi holds a life-like sleeve for a prosthetic arm at the Center for the Intrepid (CFI), at Brooke Army Medical Center, on August 7, 2012, in San Antonio, Texas. Artists paint the rubber covers — complete with custom tattoos — which slide over prosthetic arms and legs made at the center for military amputees.
Sum of the Parts: Prosthetics Through the Centuries
People have been devising fake arms, legs, noses and virtually every other body part for centuries. Here, a quick look at some of the devices that humans have invented to replace -- or at least approximate -- the irreplaceable.
Life-Like Arm, With Tattoo
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Prosthetics
- Tycho Brahe’s Nose
- Prosthetic Eyes
- Prosthetic Ear
- Hammer Hand
- Facial Prosthetics
- Variety of Prostheses
- Artificial Leg, Italy
- Artificial Arms, Real Saw
- Artificial Noses
- Prosthetic Arms for Thalidomide Kids
- Artificial Foot
- Jaipur Foot, Interior View
- Prosthetic Hand With Fork
- Prosthetic Leg
- Prosthetic Breast
- False Eye
- Life-Like Arm, With Tattoo
- False Teeth
- WWI-Era Facial Prostheses
- The Full Prosthetic: Bionic Man