Prosthetic foot with custom graphic socket
date: label: date made
content: ca 2003
name: label: maker
content: Ossur North America
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This artificial lower limb from 2003 is made of carbon fiber and fiberglass. Van Phillips, the inventor, designed the distinctive Flex-Foot appendage to use a person’s weight shift from leg to leg in walking as a way to store and release energy. The socket is painted with a rain forest motif.
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Aliso Viejo
topic: label: Subject
content: Disabilities
label: Subject
content: Prosthesis
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Disabilities
label: Exhibition
content: Change Your Game
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift from Ossur North America
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0315.11
label: accession number
content: 2003.0315
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0315.11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: foot, prosthetic
label: Object Name
content: Flex-Foot
label: Object Name
content: foot, artificial
label: Object Name
content: prosthesis
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fiberglass; ink; aluminum; rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: carbon fiber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 54 cm x 11.1 cm x 23.9 cm; 21 1/4 in x 4 3/8 in x 9 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored: 4 7/8 in x 9 1/2 in x 21 3/8 in; 12.3825 cm x 24.13 cm x 54.2925 cm