YORICK, The Bionic Skeleton
date: label: date made
content: 1970s-1980s
name: label: maker
content: Mueller, Edward
notes: label: Description
content: Yorick is a plastic male skeleton imbedded with electronic and mechanical devices used to replace worn body parts. Yorick was created by Ed Mueller, an engineer in the Division of Mechanical and Material Sciences at the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in Washington, D.C.
label: Description
content: Yorick often made appearances at schools, Scout meetings, and hospitals to educate students about bionics and current research on implant design development.
label: Description
content: Some of the devices implanted in Yorick are: cranial plate, silicone nose, carbon tooth root, interocular lens, cochlear implant, heart valve, artificial heart, cardiac pacemaker, infusion port, vascular grafts, urinary sphincter prosthesis, artificial patella, bone plate, artificial tendons, bone growth stimulator, and artificial hip, knee, elbow, and finger joints.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Artificial Organs
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: Artificial Hearts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Food and Drug Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0205.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.0205
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0205.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: skeleton model, human, with bionic devices
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: synthetic polymers, plastic and rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metals, titanium and stainless steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: synthetic polyester fiber, dacron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 164 cm x 36.5 cm x 21.5 cm; 64 9/16 in x 14 3/8 in x 8 15/32 in