Artificial Leg
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content: Patent model for James A. Foster, “Artificial Leg,” U.S. Patent 92,031 (June 29, 1869). Foster, who lived in West Stockholm, N.Y., obtained a patent for an artificial leg in 1865. Four years later, now living in Detroit, he obtained another. Foster’s “Union Leg” was still in production in the 1890s. Many were undoubtedly purchased with the Great Civil War Benefaction, a federal commitment to provide prosthetics to all disabled veterans.
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content: Ref: A Brief Description of James A. Foster’s Patent Union Artificial Limbs
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content: James A. Foster, “Artificial Leg,” U.S. Patent 49,253 (Aug. 8, 1865).
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content: Guy R. Hasegawa, Mending Broken Soldiers: The Union and Confederate Programs to Supply Artificial Limbs (Carbondale, Ill., 2012).
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: 1981.0668.03
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content: 1981.0668.03
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content: 1981.0668
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content: 92031
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content: artificial leg patent model