Comments on: SHOP WORK with a CARNES ARTIFICIAL ARM

By: mark lesek

mark lesek — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:29:23 +0000

I hope to remake these arms in Tasmania Australia with the encourgement of the inventors grandson John Carnes and family.I have a original 1912 and will build a modern replica with modern materials in my modern machine shop.I too am a right hand above elbow amputee who has the determination need and resorces to make this a reality.These arms have some features that even modern arms lack.They have been forgotten abour for seventy years.Please email me if you have a need or support this exciting project. mark@dynamicwelding.com My website is http://www.dynamicwelding.com or google my name in mark lesek and see what comes up.I need your support.

By: John Carnes

John Carnes — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:18:37 +0000

e-mail enroute again.

By: Mark Lesek

Mark Lesek — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:30:25 +0000

Hello John

I haven’t yet received your email, please try again, you should get through by clicking on the email link. If you wish to leave your email address I shall contact you

Thanks, Mark

By: John Carnes

John Carnes — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:22:11 +0000

Mark: Actually I meant to say that I sent you an e-mail. You should have gotten it by now.

By: Mark Lesek

Mark Lesek — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:09:10 +0000

Dear John,

I left the email on number 9 but here it is again. Mark at Dynamic

By: John Carnes

John Carnes — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:12:54 +0000

Mark, you have an e-mail.

By: mark lesek

mark lesek — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:06:38 +0000

has anybody a carnes arm I can borrow to replicate a modern version? please email mark@dynamicwelding.com

By: mark lesek

mark lesek — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:34:41 +0000

john carnes please email me regards mark lesek

By: John Carnes

John Carnes — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:39:45 +0000

Good find Firebrand38! Our family still has all the original patent drawings and information. It’s quite interesting to see that Google has all that indexed now.

Mark Lesek: Let me know if I can help with your project. Exciting!

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:40:37 +0000

Here

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.u.....px?id=5783

http://www.ingenious.org.uk/si.....D=1999-528

http://www.google.com/patents?.....038;zoom=4

http://www.google.com/patents?.....#038;cad=1

By: mark lesek

mark lesek — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:50:22 +0000

I have seen one of these wow way ahead of its time .would like to build modern version .I too am a amputee and have a modern machine shop in Tasmania Australia .Can anybody help? email mark@dynamicwelding.com

By: JERRY LEAVY

JERRY LEAVY — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:56:57 +0000

I WAS A WEARER OF CARNES ARMS AT THE AGE OF 13 IN 1940 FITTED WITH ONE ABOVE ELBOW AND ONE BELOW ELBOW AT THE KANSAS CITY FACILITY. I MET WILLIAM T CARNES AND MY PHOTOS WERE
DEPICTED ON THEIR BROCHURES……..THESE ARMS WERE A GREAT PIECE OF ENGINEERING.

By: John Carnes

John Carnes — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:11:34 +0000

And here’s another little reference:

http://www.christies.com/LotFi.....ID=3758676

Christie’s Auction house sold an arm in 1994. Interesting, but the picture isn’t there.

By: John Carnes

John Carnes — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:04:25 +0000

This was an invention by my grandfather, William T. Carnes, Sr. He had lost his right arm at the shoulder in a machine shop accident and he was an inventor so he made himself an arm. The arm was fully functional and had movable fingers and thumb. It functioned much like a real arm but with limitations of mechanics in those days. The product sold very well with the U.S. military buying many of them for soldiers who had lost limbs (yes, they made legs too). The company folded during the Great Depression. The Smithsonian has an arm and it is in a rotating display of artificial limbs. Our family has lots of information on the arm and the company.

By: Anne

Anne — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:42:15 +0000

I’d like to know how this worked. Or was supposed to work. As far as I know, artificial limbs now days can’t do all that.