Prosthetic Foot, Modular III Flex-Foot
date: label: date made
content: ca 1992
name: label: maker
content: Ossur North America
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This artificial foot from 1992 is made of carbon fiber. 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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
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: 2003.0315.07
label: serial number
content: 21216
label: accession number
content: 2003.0315
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0315.07
label: model number
content: 2
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: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: carbon fiber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 cm x 24.2 cm x 6 cm; 8 1/4 in x 9 1/2 in x 2 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored: 2 1/2 in x 9 5/8 in x 8 1/2 in; 6.35 cm x 24.4475 cm x 21.59 cm