Artificial Leg
date: label: date made
content: 1863
label: patent date
content: 1863-02-10
name: label: maker
content: Parmelee, Dubois D.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Parmelee’s “Artificial Leg” included an atmospheric pressure-conforming rubber bucket molded from the patient’s remaining limb. Parmelee held several patents using India-rubber.
label: Description
content: Patent model for DuBois D. Parmelee, “Improvement in Artificial Legs,” U.S. Patent 37,737 (Feb. 10, 1863). Dubois Duncan Parmalee (1829-1897) was a chemist and inventor in New York City.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
label: See more items in
content: Health & Medicine
label: See more items in
content: Family & Social Life
label: See more items in
content: Work
label: See more items in
content: Industry & Manufacturing
label: See more items in
content: Invention and the Patent Model
label: See more items in
content: Patent Models
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0273.07
label: accession number
content: 1978.0273
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0273.07
label: patent number
content: 37637
objectType: label: Object Name
content: artificial leg
label: Object Name
content: leg, prosthetic, patent model
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored: 3 1/4 in x 9 3/8 in x 10 1/8 in; 8.255 cm x 23.8125 cm x 25.7175 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 cm x 8 cm; 6 11/16 in x 3 5/32 in