Electro-Magnetic Dental Mallet
name: label: maker
content: S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: William Gibson Arlington Bonwill (1833-1899) was a graduate of the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery and the Jefferson Medical College, who practiced dentistry in Dover, Del., and invented several dental instruments. A tag on this example reads "First Electromagnetic mallet made by Dr. Bonwill at Dover, Del., 1870."
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dr. W. G. A. Bonwill,” The Dental Digest 5 (1899): 766-768.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-08743
label: catalog number
content: M-08743
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mallet, Electro-Magnetic
label: Other Terms
content: Mallet, Electro-Magnetic; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14.2 cm x 2.8 cm x 1.3 cm; 5 9/16 in x 1 1/8 in x 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.8 cm x 14.2 cm x 1.1 cm; 11/16 in x 5 9/16 in x 7/16 in