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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race: High-Tech Hands are Complicated, Costly, and Often Impractical

2022; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 59; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/mspec.2022.9915629

1939-9340

Britt H. Young,

Mechanics and Biomechanics Studies

IN JULES VERNE'S 1865 NOVEL From the Earth to the Moon, members of the fictitious Baltimore Gun Club, all disabled Civil War veterans, restlessly search for a new enemy to conquer. They had spent the war innovating new, deadlier weaponry. By the war's end, with “not quite one arm between four persons, and exactly two legs between six,” these self-taught amputee-weaponsmiths decide to repurpose their skills toward a new projectile: a rocket ship.