Adrian Flatt Hand Collection
The Adrian Flatt hand collection is a collection of plaster and bronze casts of human hands on display at the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. The casts were created by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Adrian Flatt (1921—2017), and the collection features the hands of various former United States presidents, actors, athletes, scientists, musicians, artists, astronauts, and other celebrities. History Dr. Adrian Flatt began his collection in the late 1950s when he cast the hands of infants with congenital hand deformities in order to study them and plan his surgical procedures. He eventually cast the hands of 24 surgeons working at the medical center. He began casting hands of well-known individuals in 1962. His first celebrity hand casts were those of United States presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harry S. Truman, and the collection grew to include the cast hands of over 120 individuals. Dr. Flatt created the molds using the same type of resin used in the creation of d ...
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Hand
A hand is a prehensile, multi-fingered appendage located at the end of the forearm or forelimb of primates such as humans, chimpanzees, monkeys, and lemurs. A few other vertebrates such as the Koala#Characteristics, koala (which has two thumb#Opposition and apposition, opposable thumbs on each "hand" and fingerprints extremely similar to human fingerprints) are often described as having "hands" instead of paws on their front limbs. The raccoon is usually described as having "hands" though opposable thumbs are lacking. Some evolutionary anatomists use the term ''hand'' to refer to the appendage of digits on the forelimb more generally—for example, in the context of whether the three Digit (anatomy), digits of the bird hand involved the same Homology (biology), homologous loss of two digits as in the dinosaur hand. The human hand usually has five digits: Finger numbering#Four-finger system, four fingers plus one thumb; however, these are often referred to collectively as Finger ...
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