Dental Drill
name: label: maker
content: Kirk, Eleanor
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Kirby Spencer, “Dentist’s Drill,” U.S. Patent 5,866 (Oct. 17, 1848). An inscription reads “KIRBY SPENCER’S, PATENT.” One contemporary commentator described this drill as “a very handsome instrument, and very useful, but so complicated as to render it too expensive.” Kirby Spencer (1805-1870) was a dentist in Athens, Georgia, who moved to Minneapolis in the 1850s, and who bequeathed his estate to the Minneapolis Athenaeum.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04162
label: catalog number
content: M-04162
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 5,866
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drill, Spencer's
label: Object Name
content: drill, patent model, spencer's
label: Object Name
content: dental instrument
label: Other Terms
content: Drill, Spencer's; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x 37 cm x 2.3 cm; 13/16 in x 14 9/16 in x 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 1/2 in x 7/8 in; x 36.83 cm x 2.2225 cm