Dental Gold
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Alfred J. Watts, “Improvement in the Manufacture of Dentists’ Crystalline Gold,” U.S. Patent 30,847 (Dec. 4, 1860). Alfred Joseph Watts (1827-1900) was born in England, educated as a physician, moved to the United States in 1850, and settled in Utica, N.Y. After discovering a method of making crystalline gold for dental purposes, Dr. Watts relocated to Brooklyn, and began manufacturing dental gold.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Death of Dr. Alfred J. Watts,” The Dental Review 14 (1900): 163; and ads for “Watts’ Crystal Gold.”
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 Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.291116.460
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: catalog number
content: 291116.460
objectType: label: Object Name
content: supplies, dental
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall - box: 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in x 1 1/4 in; .635 cm x 6.35 cm x 3.175 cm