30 May 2012

Judge Quentin Corley

Quentin Durward Corley, Sr. (January 21, 1884 - April 22, 1980) was a Texas circuit judge. On September 18, 1905 in Utica, New York he was in a railroad accident and lost both hands and one arm and shoulder. Within two years he invented and patented an artificial limb.
Info from Wikipedia, via Vintage Photography.

3 comments:

  1. wouldn't for sure; thanks to you, we know;
    I am impressed, really

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  2. A man able to turn all the lemons life threw at him into the finest lemonade.

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