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  2. Crutch - Wikipedia

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    A boy using underarm (axillary) crutches to keep weight off the injured leg A man using forearm crutches. A crutch is a mobility aid that transfers weight from the legs to the upper body. It is often used by people who cannot use their legs to support their weight, for reasons ranging from short-term injuries to lifelong disabilities.

  3. Marston Mat - Wikipedia

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    RAF aircrew with one of their Bristol Beaufighters on a PSP airstrip at Biferno, Italy, August 1944. Marston Mat, more properly called pierced (or perforated) steel planking (PSP), is standardized, perforated steel matting material developed by the United States at the Waterways Experiment Station shortly before World War II, primarily for the rapid construction of temporary runways and ...

  4. List of Dick Tracy characters - Wikipedia

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    In one strip she spoke on the telephone with her sister Margot about their sister, Lois, who had a thing for men who wore capes (presumably Superman). Loma (1941) - Secretary/circus trapeze artist who saved Dick Tracy's life after Littleface Finny's henchman untied the window washer's platform Tracy was using to spy on Little Face. Later ...

  5. Stilts - Wikipedia

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    Hand-held string stilts (also known as tin can or bucket stilts) are platforms with strings attached to them. The platforms, most commonly made of tin cans or small plastic upturned buckets hold the stilt walker's weight while the strings are used to pull the cans to the feet as they take a step.

  6. Powered exoskeleton - Wikipedia

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    An exhibit of the "Future Soldier" designed by the United States ArmyA powered exoskeleton is a mobile machine wearable over all or part of the human body, providing ergonomic structural support, and powered by a system of electric motors, pneumatics, levers, hydraulics or a combination of cybernetic technologies, allowing for sufficient limb movement, and providing increased strength ...

  7. Walking stick - Wikipedia

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    An alpenstock, from its origins in mountaineering in the Alps, is equipped with a steel point and may carry a hook or ice axe on top. More ornate sticks may be adorned with small trinkets or medallions depicting visited territory. Wooden walking-sticks are used for outdoor sports, healthy upper-body exercise, and even club, department, and ...

  8. Talk:Crutch - Wikipedia

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    With the underarm crutches you cant really lift up the crutch in the same way, because it will hit against armpit. Imagine using underarm crutches, the feet of the crutches are parallel to your functional leg which the weight is on. You then start falling over to the front. If you want to move the crutches in front of you it is hard.

  9. Knapping - Wikipedia

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    Flintknapping a stone tool. Knapping is the shaping of flint, chert, obsidian, or other conchoidal fracturing stone through the process of lithic reduction to manufacture stone tools, strikers for flintlock firearms, or to produce flat-faced stones for building or facing walls, and flushwork decoration.

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