The Mechanical Hand -- A scene in the artificial limb factory at Queen Mary's Hospital. Experiments are now being carried out at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, in the development of a mechanical hand that will enable the owner to write, smoke, hold a knife and fork or play golf. The experiments are being made for the Ministry of Pensions by Dr. A.A. Atkinson, who is in charge of the limb-fitting service at the Hospital. He lost a leg himself in the 1941 war. April 17, 1946.