Memorial Tributes Volume 3 (1989) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
Hans Adolph Mauch
Hans Adolph Mauch
Pages 258-265
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 259... ...
a strong personality, Hans Aclolph Mauch repeatedly predicted he would live to be a hundred years oIcI. Tall, tough, and an advocate of vigorous exercise, at age seventy-seven he worked long hours.
|
From page 260... ...
development efforts involving automatic conveyors and sorters; these efforts includec] the clevelopment of a method by which each cylinder would carry an easily changed, predetermined cocle that, despite unpredictable rotation and high velocity, could be read automatically and signalecl ahead to set switches that wouIcl divert the capsule to its correct destination.
|
From page 261... ...
the U.S. Air Force assemblect many top German scientists ant!
|
From page 262... ...
The Mauch swing control provides programmed resistance that automatically varies with knee angle and walking speed, plus the possibility of independent adjustment of resistances to flexion anal extension. The stance phase control always allows extension, but automatically imposes a high (but acljustable)
|
From page 263... ...
The genius, persistence, anct vision of Hans Mauch are demonstrated by his eventual success with the S-N-S, the recent acceptance of the hydraulic ankle, and his yearning to attain a truly voluntary yet subconscious control of swing-and-stance phase movement. Although this memoir focuses on Mauch's contributions to hydraulic lower limb prostheses, he made thoughtful, ingenious contributions in many fields, including aviation anc!
|
From page 264... ...
The U.S. Air Force awarded him the Outstanding Civil Service Commendation in 1956 and the Outstanding Inventor Award in 1960.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.