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Van Phillips page at ossur.com 2011 Video of Van Phillips giving a presentation on inventing his prosthetics This article about an American inventor is a stub .
2 "bladerunners" using this sort of prosthetic foot. CGI image. The Flex-Foot Cheetah is a prosthetic human foot replacement developed by biomedical engineer Van Phillips, who had lost a leg below the knee at age 21; the deficiencies of existing prostheses led him to invent this new prosthesis.
Van Phillips may refer to: ... Van Phillips (inventor) (born 1954), American inventor of prosthetics; Van Phillips (composer), jazz composer, bandleader and musician
Edwin Perkins (inventor) L. A. M. Phelan; George May Phelps; Van Phillips (inventor) Traverse Benjamin Pinn Sr. Wadsworth E. Pohl; Alexander M. Poniatoff; Franklin Leonard Pope; Manu Prakash; Thomas Willis Pratt; John Proctor (inventor)
They were developed by medical engineer Van Phillips who incorporated Flex-Foot, Inc. in 1984. In 2000, Van Phillips sold the company to Össur which, as of 2012, still manufactures the blades. They are designed to store kinetic energy like a spring, allowing the wearer to jump and run effectively. [7]
Kálmán Tihanyi (1897–1947), Hungary – co-inventor of cathode-ray tube and iconoscope, infrared video camera, plasma display Mikhail Tikhonravov (1900–1974), Russia – co-developer of Sputnik 1 (the first artificial satellite) together with Korolyov and Keldysh , designer of further Sputniks
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
This category is for the inventors or innovators of sports (such as inventing basketball) or things crucial to modern sports (such as inventing billiards cue tip chalk or plastic balls).