Dental Engine
notes: label: Description
content: Dental hand engine designed by George F. Green (1832-1892), an inventor in Kalamazoo, Mich. Green apparently a pneumatic engine at a meeting of the American Dental Association in 1871.
label: Description
content: Ref: George F. Green, “Improvement in Electro-Magnetic Dental Tools,” U.S. Patent 159,028 (Jan. 26, 1875).
label: Description
content: “Pneumatic Engine,” The Dental Register 25 (1871): 95-96.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-08477
label: catalog number
content: M-08477
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dental engine
label: Object Name
content: dental engine
label: Other Terms
content: dental engine; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in x 1 in; 24.13 cm x 6.35 cm x 2.54 cm