Tag: history

Last year, Hari Budha Magar become the first bilateral above-knee amputee to reach the summit of Mount Everest. But when ...

What holiday gift can you buy for the amputee who’s impossible to shop for? Stephan Boos's emporium of vintage prosthetics ...

In Lost Cities Revealed, amputee explorer Albert Lin shares deep narratives about the collective wisdom that connects ancient civilizations to ...

A new 70-foot-high mural in a Michigan city honors Jim Letherer, the above-knee amputee who made national headlines in 1965 ...

Many of today’s prosthetic design concepts have their roots in World War I. A major museum exhibition opening in June ...

A new archaeological find shows that prehistoric cultures knew how to provide sophisticated care for amputees—and how to reintegrate them ...

One of the most powerful war machines in history—the British Royal Navy of the Napoleonic Era—actively groomed amputees for its ...

Amputee admirals in the 19th-century British Navy were judged not by their disabilities but by their abilities. Few institutions in ...

Among prosthetists, Paul Leimkuehler is well remembered as a trail-blazing practitioner who helped establish the standards of the profession. But ...

Little did we realize when we wrote about amputee pitcher Monty Stratton just how rich a vein we’d drilled into. ...

The end of this week marks the 149th anniversary of U.S. Patent No. 111,741, filed on February 14, 1871, by ...