A mechanical device capable return man, some of the functionality lost in the loss of an arm or leg, called respectively an artificial arm or artificial leg. Artificial hands and legs together under the General title of artificial limbs ).
Artificial hand, as a rule, operate by reducing the preserved muscles, but sometimes for this purpose there are special electrical, hydraulic or pneumatic drive system. This artificial hand is classified as a so-called prosthesis with reinforcement.


Even the ancient Romans realized that to quickly get to the farthest provinces of the Empire is possible only in the presence of good roads. This truth was so obvious that laying them in the Roman Empire became a matter of national importance. In the end, the well-preserved Roman road with broken cars still line function somewhere in the twenty-first century.