Van Phillips Video History Interview
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Ossur North America
label: Collection Interviewer
content: Ott, Katherine
label: Collection Interviewee
content: Phillips, Van
label: Collection Interviewer
content: Dennis, Maggie
label: Collection Creator
content: Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
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content: Van Phillips Oral History and Papers
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content: Van Phillips Oral History and Papers / Series 1: Video Oral History
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2004-02-27
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Video 859.2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Total Running Time: 30:15

Continuing discussion of his work at the Center for Biomedical Design for Jan Secosa; working on his prosthetic foot designs on the weekend; problems with various materials and the toes of the feet always breaking; the overall development of his prosthetic foot design; setting up his apartment to fabricate prototypes; calling companies to get free samples of materials; differences between bolted and bonded feet; how his energy idea was born; his own use of prosthetic feet such as the Sach Foot and the Greisinger Foot; the Seattle Foot prosthetic foot that was similar in concept to Phillips; and the benefits of the split toe design.