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  1. Jan 10, 2024, 12:56 PM #1
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    1920s prosthetic arm - GIF

    1920s prosthetic arm.




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



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