Trivia A Leg up 7-26-16

[Trivia Master]

I lost a leg early in the Civil War, but did not despair and fashioned myself an artificial leg. The same year I founded a company for the manufacture of prosthetic legs that still exists today.
What is my name?

credit: @sarladaise

 

[kholland]

James Hanger

 

[ErnieMac]

James Edward Hanger.

 

[Reb]

James Edward Hanger.
Side note. I just took my mother to a Hanger facility last week to be fitted for a "turtle shell". She suffers from degenerative disc disease and has had five surgeries to implant/ replace hardware to support her spine. She has titanium rods from her neck to her hip. The hardware has failed. One of the titanium rods snapped. She is too old for another surgery. So the shell is the last resort for any protection of her spinal cord.

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Confederate veteran James E. Hanger.

 

[GELongstreet]

James E. Hanger?

 

[chellers]

James Edward Hanger

 

[Stony]

James Edward Hanger
source-http://rampages.us/beingausefuladult/2016/03/05/how-products-are-made-annotation/

 

[JohnDLittlefield]

Ironically, the person who launched the era of modern prosthetics was also the first documented amputee of the Civil War–Confederate soldier James Edward Hanger. Hanger, who lost his leg above the knee to a cannon ball, was first fitted with a wooden peg leg by Yankee surgeons. Unhappy with the cumbersome appendage, Hanger eventually designed and built a new, lightweight leg from whittled barrel staves. Hanger's innovative leg had hinges at the knee and foot, which helped him to sit more comfortably and to walk with a more natural gait. Hangar won the contract to make limbs for Confederate veterans. The company he founded–Hanger, Inc.–remains a key player in prosthetics and orthotics today.

source: https://www.asme.org/engineering-to...ivil-war-and-birth-of-us-prosthetics-industry

 

[FarawayFriend]

Your name is James Edward Hanger

https://www.asme.org/engineering-to...ivil-war-and-birth-of-us-prosthetics-industry

 

[truthckr]

James Edward Hanger (February 25, 1843 – June 9, 1919)

 

[57th Indiana Infantry]

It all started with a cannonball
James Edward Hanger

 

[Wallyfish]

James Edward Hanger


His Company was Hanger Inc.

His design had hinges at the kneee and foot.

On June 1, 1861, 18-year-old engineering student James Edward Hanger left his family, forgoing his studies at Washington College (now Washington & Lee University), to join his brothers in the Confederate Army. On June 3, less than two days after enlisting, a cannonball tore through his leg early in the Battle of Philippi. Becoming the first amputee of the Civil War, the young Hanger survived an excruciating battlefield amputation necessary to save his life by Dr. James D. Robinson.

Today Hanger Inc has annual sales over 1 billion dollars.

 

[adisciu9]

J.E Hanger

 

[MRB1863]

Ironically, the person who launched the era of modern prosthetics was also the first documented amputee of the Civil War–Confederate soldier James Edward Hanger. Hanger, who lost his leg above the knee to a cannon ball, was first fitted with a wooden peg leg by Yankee surgeons. Unhappy with the cumbersome appendage, Hanger eventually designed and built a new, lightweight leg from whittled barrel staves. Hanger's innovative leg had hinges at the knee and foot, which helped him to sit more comfortably and to walk with a more natural gait. Hangar won the contract to make limbs for Confederate veterans. The company he founded–Hanger, Inc.–remains a key player in prosthetics and orthotics today.

Source: https://www.asme.org/engineering-to...ivil-war-and-birth-of-us-prosthetics-industry

 

[Brenal]

J. E. Hanger, an engineering student, lost his leg in the Civil War. He subsequently designed an artificial leg for himself and in 1861 founded a company to manufacture prosthetic legs. The J. E. Hanger Company is still in existence today.

Read more:http://www.madehow.com/Volume-1/Artificial-Limb.html#ixzz4FWtwe6gV

 

[JOHN42768]

James Edward Hanger (February 25, 1843 – June 9, 1919) was a Confederate States Army veteran of the American Civil War, a prosthetist and a businessman. It is reported that he became the first amputee of the war after being struck in the leg by a cannonball.[1] Hanger subsequently designed and created his own prosthesis, then went on to found a prosthetic company that continues in business today

 

[UCVRelics]

I lost a leg early in the Civil War, but did not despair and fashioned myself an artificial leg. The same year I founded a company for the manufacture of prosthetic legs that still exists today.
What is my name? James Edward Hanger

 

[MaryDee]

James Edward Hanger, founder of Hanger, Inc., a key player in the prosthetics industry today. Source: https://www.asme.org/engineering-to...ivil-war-and-birth-of-us-prosthetics-industry

 

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James Edward Hanger