7 June 11
The birth of modern prosthetics
ASME reports: “The brutality of [the American Civil War] spawned a revolution in the design and mass production of artificial limbs” and that “Many of the prosthetic technologies helping today’s combat veterans owe their existence to innovations and federal programs dating back to this tumultuous period of American history.”
And if you like that story, you might also want to read about a new ‘smart bandage’ developed by a group of researchers in Melbourne. It changes colour when a wound becomes infected. (Courtesy of Sydney Morning Herald.)
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