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Newly applied short leg cast Short leg walking cast Plaster of Paris short leg walking cast with toeplate Long leg cast for tibial fracture. Lower extremity casts are classified similarly, with a cast encasing both the foot and the leg to the hip being called a long leg cast, while a cast encasing the patient's foot, ankle and lower leg ending below the knee being called a short leg cast.
Plaster cast bust of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon based on a life mask cast in 1786.. A plaster cast is a copy made in plaster of another 3-dimensional form. The original from which the cast is taken may be a sculpture, building, a face, a pregnant belly, a fossil or other remains such as fresh or fossilised footprints – particularly in palaeontology (a track of dinosaur ...
The meat packing plants of Chicago were among the first to utilize assembly line (or in this case, disassembly-line) production techniques. [7] Henry Ford states in his autobiography My Life and Work that it was a visit to a Chicago slaughterhouse which opened his eyes to the virtues of employing a moving conveyor system and fixed work stations ...
India is attributed as one of the first civilizations to use casting methods to mass produce coins. Around the middle of the first millennium BC (1000 BC - 1 BC), coins used were made from silver but as the millennium progressed the coins shifted to a cast copper alloy. [4] New technology was developed to mass produce the new copper coins.
Anne Crawford Acheson CBE FRBC [1] (5 August 1882 – 13 March 1962) was a British-Irish sculptor. She and Elinor Hallé invented plaster casts for soldier's broken limbs. . Acheson exhibited at the Royal Academy and internat
Elektrische Gipssäge, by Ortopedia, Kiel, Germany. A cast saw is an oscillating saw used to remove orthopedic casts.Instead of a rotating blade, cast saws use a sharp, small-toothed blade rapidly oscillating or vibrating back and forth over a minimal angle to cut material and are therefore not circular saws. [1]
Still life with plaster casts, made by Daguerre in 1837, the earliest reliably dated daguerreotype [note 2] To exploit the invention, 400 shares would be on offer for 1,000 francs each; secrecy would be lifted after 100 shares had been sold, or the rights of the process could be bought for 20,000 francs.
A bowl made from cast-glass. The two halves are joined together by the weld seam, running down the middle. Glass casting is the process in which glass objects are cast by directing molten glass into a mould where it solidifies. The technique has been used since the 15th century BCE in both Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Modern cast glass is ...