1. Alex Joyce

2.  An artificial device to replace or augment a missing or impaired part of the body

3.  1500 BC- Egyptians  Wooden Toes  300 BC- Italians  Artificial Leg

4. Time PeriodYearsWhere?Who?What? Ancient World~ 1500 BCEgyptEgyptiansWooden Toe Ancient World~ 300 BCItaly?Bronze/Wooden Leg Second Punic War218-210 BCItalyRomansIron Hand The Dark Ages476-1000??Peg Legs/Hand Hooks The Renaissance1400-1800Greece/ItalyGreeks/Romans Iron, Steel, Copper and Wood Limbs The Renaissance1508Germanyvon BerlichingenManipulative Iron hands The RenaissanceEarly 1500sAlgeriaBarbarossaSilver Arm The Renaissance1696?Verduyn Nonlocking below-knee prosthesis Modern Times1858?BlyAnatomical Leg Modern Times1863EnglandParmleeAluminum Limbs

5.  Also called neural prosthetics  A series of devices that can substitute motor, sensory or cognitive modality that might have been damaged as result of an injury or disease.

6.  Enables an amputee to control motorized prosthetic devices and to regain sensory feedback.

7.  Dr. Todd Kuiken  Surgery makes artificial arms easier to control Surgery makes artificial arms easier to control

8.  Patient (Jesse Sullivan)  Bionic Hand Bionic Hand

9.  Norton, Kim M.. "A Brief History of Prosthetics."inMotion. Amputee Coalition, 05 2009. Web. 13 Nov 2012..  Steenhuysen, Julie. "Surgery makes artificial arms easier to control.". Reuters, 10 2009. Web. 12 Nov 2012..  Yiu, Stephanie. "To Arms.". Northwestern University, n.d. Web. 12 Nov 2012..