They used natural woods, dyes and leather covering to make artificial limbs appear more natural, but also tried to make them more functional by inventing new types of joints, ball bearings, springs and rubber bands to substitute for ligaments and tendons, and
other mechanical innovations to try to create a natural gait and to allow men to conceal their disability if they so desired.
Not exact matches
Just as open - source software has spurred far - flung
innovation in computing, «open design» hardware platforms — coupled with advances in computer - aided engineering and more accessible prototyping capabilities — have the potential to foster remote collaboration on common
mechanical engineering projects, unleashing crowdsourced creativity in robotics and
other fields.
Since that original
innovation, we created the first
mechanical gaming keyboard, the first suspended headband for gaming headsets, the first World of Warcraft mouse and endless
other innovations.