Word: gurfinkel
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...controlled from the brain by electrical impulses that pass along the nerves to work the muscles. After an amputation, especially below the elbow, the nerve-muscle system still works as far as the stump of the limb. With this in mind, Moscow Scientists A. E. Kobrinsky and V. S. Gurfinkel decided to use these muscular contractions to make electric currents. In effect, they set about reversing nature's process. The resulting currents are so minute that they have to be enormously amplified to work an artificial limb...
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