Promotional graphic for a January 13 episode of the Disability Daily Podcast focusing on the German prosthetics company Ottobock. The poster includes the podcast logo, bold date text, and an inset image of a vintage newspaper advertisement for the Ottobock controlled knee joint device, showing a prosthetic leg with a visible slit running from the hip down the thigh to below the knee. Text notes that Ottobock was founded in 1919 to help wounded soldiers.
On this day in 1919, German #prosthetics company #Ottobock was founded to help wounded soldiers.
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