Prosthetic Arm and Hand
name: label: maker
content: Dilworth Arm Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Otto Le Grand Dilworth (1875-1960), manager of the Hartford Artificial Limb Co., went to France in 1915 and recognized the extent to which war would lead to expanding sales. The Dilworth Arm Co. was organized in 1919; and became the Dilworth Arm Division of the Henry & Wright Manufacturing Co. in 1920. This item is a Dilworth above-the-elbow prosthetic arm with mechanical hand.
label: Description
content: Ref: Otto Le Grand Dilworth, “Artificial Arm and Hand,” U.S. Patent 1,385,817 (July 21, 1921).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine, Prostheses
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Veterans Administration
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0648.22
label: accession number
content: 1979.0648
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0648.22
objectType: label: Object Name
content: arm, prosthetic