Bellows
name: label: maker
content: Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: The inscriptions on these foot-powered wood and leather bellows read “BUFFALO DENTAL MFGC / BUFFALO, N.Y.” and “NO. 9” and “61851 / 2 / 1900.” Thomas Fletcher (1840-1903)—an English dentist, inventor, and pioneer of the gas engineering industry—designed the form.
label: Description
content: Ref: Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Co., <i>Catalogue and Price List of Dentists’ Supplies</i> (Buffalo, 1901), p. 509.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316160
label: accession number
content: 224003
label: catalog number
content: 316160
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bellows
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 18 in x 15 in; 30.48 cm x 45.72 cm x 38.1 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 in x 12 1/4 in x 15 1/2 in; 43.18 cm x 31.115 cm x 39.37 cm