1920s prosthetic arm - GIF

1920s prosthetic arm.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...286#post126820
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...814#post232389
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...183#post221664
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...821#post206545
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...372#post185277

That thing is only marginally worse than what we've got now. Incredible.

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Originally Posted by nova_robotics

That thing is only marginally worse than what we've got now. Incredible.

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I was thinking that. It looks pretty clever for that period way before microprocessors.
I often tell people that it is a mistake to think that people in times past were less clever than those of today. As Newton said in much earlier times "I stood on the shoulders of giants."