Description

Black and white photograph of Ralph Alter and Ronald D. Rothchild testing prosthetics operated by computer-generated electronic signals.

Original Caption: "From the Office of Public Relations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for A.M. Newspapers of Sunday, June 27, 1965. Ralph Alter (left) and Ronald Rothchild, graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, test a prosthetic device operated via a computer (not shown) by bioelectric signals generated when Alter contracts the muscles in his upper arm. The research was carried out in the Research Laboratory of Electronics and Engineering Projects Laboratory, both at MIT, under sponsorship of the Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. of Boston."