Dental Drill
notes: label: Description
content: Ultrasonic dental handpiece invented by Lewis Balamuth and Arthur Kuris (1913-2000). Cavitron Ultrasonics, Inc., a New York firm with a factory in Long Island City, donated it to the Smithsonian in 1963.
label: Description
content: Ref: Lewis Balamuth and Arthur Kuris, “Dental Instrument,” U.S. Patent 3,075,288 (Jan. 29, 1963), assigned to Cavitron Ultrasonics, Inc.
label: Description
content: “Patented Ultrasonic Unit Cleans Teeth Painlessly,” New York Times (Feb. 9, 1963), p. 9.
label: Description
content: Lewis Balamuth, “Ultrasonics and Dentistry,” Sound (1963): 15-.
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: MG.M-10465
label: accession number
content: 250505
label: catalog number
content: M-10465
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drill
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 17 1/2 in x 3/4 in; 1.905 cm x 44.45 cm x 1.905 cm