Calipers
notes: label: Description
content: The "Patented June 2, 1885" inscription on these dental calipers refers to Charles P. Fay, a businessman in Springfield, Mass. who sold his concern to L. S. Starrett in 1887.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles P. Fay, “Spring-Calipers,” U.S. Patent 319,215 (June 2, 1885).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery and Charles A. Lindbergh
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.258357.14
label: catalog number
content: 258357.14
label: accession number
content: 258357
objectType: label: Object Name
content: calipers and dentimeters
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 3 1/4 in x 5 7/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 8.255 cm x 14.9225 cm