Prosthetic Arm
name: label: maker
content: Carnes Artificial Limb Company
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on this prosthetic arm reads “CARNES ARTIFICIAL LIMB CO. / KANSAS CITY, MO., U.S.A.” with four patent dates from 1904 to 1922. William T. Carnes was a Pennsylvania machinist who, having lost his left arm in a machine accident in 1902, and finding fault with the artificial limbs on the market, decided to design and manufacture better ones. J. P. Prescott was a Kansas City businessman who lost several limbs in an elevator accident in 1908. The two men met soon thereafter and established the Carnes Artificial Limb Co.
label: Description
content: Ref: Robert McNeill, “Worker Loses His Arm; Makes New Mechanical One,” Chicago Tribune (Sept. 1, 1907), p. F6.
label: Description
content: J. L. Morgan, “Factory Run By Crippled Men,” The Technical World Magazine 16 (1911): 710-711.
label: Description
content: “‘Cripple Factory’ is the Queerest Workshop,” The Day Book (July 31, 1912), pp. 22-23.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
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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: 1979.0648.20
label: accession number
content: 1979.0648
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0648.20
objectType: label: Object Name
content: arm, prosthetic
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 85 cm x 16 cm x 13 cm; 33 15/32 in x 6 5/16 in x 5 1/8 in