Dental Chair
date: label: date made
content: ca 1911
label: date(s) of previous ownership
content: 1985 12 12
notes: label: Description
content: Portable dental chair designed by Jesse W. McConnell, a dentist in Cornelia, Ga., and manufactured by the Southern Novelty Works in Demorest, Ga., a firm that was registered in 1914.
label: Description
content: Ref: Jesse W. McConnell, “Dental Chair,” U.S. Patent 649,336 (May 8, 1900).
label: Description
content: Ad for the McConnell Dental Chair in Dental Hints 3 (1901): 181.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Georgia, Demorest
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Robert F. Mahar, D.D.S.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0902.01
label: accession number
content: 1985.0902
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0902.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chair, Dental, Portable
label: Object Name
content: chair, dental
label: Other Terms
content: Chair, Dental, Portable; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: folded: 103 cm x 44 cm x 22 cm; 40 9/16 in x 17 5/16 in x 8 21/32 in
label: Measurements
content: open (depth with crank): 136 cm x 95 cm x 54 cm; 53 17/32 in x 37 13/32 in x 21 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 38 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in x 21 1/2 in; 97.79 cm x 21.59 cm x 54.61 cm