Modern Marvels

Prosthetics

TV-PG
S6 • E14    Dec 28, 1998    44m
From the earliest recorded account of an amputation and subsequent prosthesis in ancient Hindu writings, to a 16th-century fully articulated artificial hand controlled by an intricate geared mechanism, to today’s use of plastics and space-age materials, we chronicle the long history of prosthetic devices.

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Cast of Prosthetics

  • Lloyd SherrSelf - Narrator

 

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