Mil-Ammeter
name: label: maker
content: Electric Dental Specialty Company
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on this device reads “MADE BY / The / ELECTRIC & SPECIALTY / DENTAL MFG. CO. / Cleveland, O. / DENTAL / MIL-AMMETER / DESIGNED BY / WESTON A. PRICE.” Weston Andrew Valleau Price (1870-1948) was a graduate of the University of Michigan Dental School who established a dental practice in Cleveland.
label: Description
content: Ref: Weston A. Price, "Electrical Measuring Instrument," U.S. Patent 783,733 (Feb. 28, 1905), assignor to The Electric and Dental Specialty Co. of Cleveland, O.
label: Description
content: “Famed Research Dentist Dies of Heart Ailment,” Los Angeles Times (Jan. 24, 1948), p. A5.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cleveland
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content: Medicine and Science: Dentistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.291116.212
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: catalog number
content: 291116.212
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mil-ammeter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 9 1/2 in x 11 in; 10.16 cm x 24.13 cm x 27.94 cm