The following article is from Uncle John’s F...  ...But that all changed after a young soldier lost a leg in the Civil War and refused to take his injury l...  ...ent people,” Hanger says. “You lose a leg , but you gain a lot of wisdom and strength.&rdquo...  ...nonball tore through the barn an...

James Gillingham was a shoemaker by trade, but fou...  ...and Gillingham soon began producing a variety of artificial limbs.Using a secret process wherein he molded th...

[http://youtu.be/n2-XPzEz6Bg] (YouTube link)Snell&...  ...d prosthetics. Chris recently made this steampunk leg that has gears controlled by a microprocessor and...  ...esumably steam-powered set of gears is moving the leg