The Kassel Hand Project

Printable Sixteenth-Century Prosthetics

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Explore the making of the project through three different perspectives involved in model design and testing. Historical Background discusses the original Kassel Hand artifact and historical interpretations of sixteenth-century prostheses and their users. Engineering Perspectives describes design aspects the mechanical engineers on our team considered in their own words. Modern Takes provides reflections of modern prosthesis users on the project.