Dental Plugger
notes: label: Description
content: Dental plugger with an “I. A. SALMON BOSTON 22” inscription. Ira A. Salmon (1830-1896) was a Boston dentist and inventor.
label: Description
content: Ref: Ira A. Salmon, “Dental Instrument,” U.S. Patent 62.504 (Feb. 26, 1867).
label: Description
content: “Dr. Ira A. Salmon,” The Dental Cosmos 38 (1896): 1040-1041.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0018
label: accession number
content: 1988.0018
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0018
objectType: label: Object Name
content: handpiece
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 3/8 in x 5 3/4 in; .9525 cm x .9525 cm x 14.605 cm