Tag: history

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 ...