Dental Articulator
notes: label: Description
content: Benjamin L. Spitzer (1887-1968) was an electrical engineer who, in 1917, organized the Columbia Dental and X-Ray Corp. in New York City. After developing a dental model for teaching purposes, he organized and led the Columbia Dentoform Corporation. Inscriptions on this dental articulator read "Dento-Form" and “Columbia Dental & X-Ray Corp., New York.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Benjamin L. Spitzer and Andrew Benko, “Dental Model,” U.S. Patent 2,005,114 (June 18, 1935).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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-09289
label: catalog number
content: M-09289
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: articulator
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 3 1/4 in x 4 1/4 in; 6.35 cm x 8.255 cm x 10.795 cm