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Archive for August, 2008

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Aug '08

Leonardo Da Vinci’s Artificial Limb Comes To Life

Five hundred years ago, Renaissance inventor Leonardo Da Vinci put his hand to designing an artificial leg. An Italian museum dedicated to his inventions in his Tuscan birthplace, Vinci, recently unveiled a working model of Leonardo’s limb. In fleshing out his creation, Da Vinci described the leg as “round…with soft annealed copper wires then folded [...]