Artifical Leg
date: label: date made
content: ca 1855
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for John Taggart, “Artificial Leg,” U.S. Patent 13,611 (Sept. 25, 1855). Taggart lived in Roxbury, Mass., and identified himself as an inventor.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston, Roxbury
topic: label: Subject
content: Patent Models
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine, Prostheses
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.309032.01
label: accession number
content: 309032
label: catalog number
content: 309032.01
label: patent number
content: 13611
objectType: label: Object Name
content: patent model
label: Object Name
content: leg, Pposthetic
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 cm x 3.3 cm x 7 cm; 7 7/8 in x 1 5/16 in x 2 3/4 in