Dental Handpiece
notes: label: Description
content: Dental handpiece made by the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co. The “PAT. JAN. 29. 78” inscription refers to Chandler Poor, “Improvement in Dental Drills,” U.S. Patent 118,268 (Aug. 22, 1871); reissue 8,065 (Jan. 29, 1878). Chandler Poor was a dentist in Dubuque, Iowa.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09534
label: catalog number
content: M-09534
label: accession number
content: 232230
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ?
label: Object Name
content: handpiece
label: Other Terms
content: ?; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 6 3/4 in x 1/2 in; 1.27 cm x 17.145 cm x 1.27 cm