Dental Handpiece
notes: label: Description
content: Dental handpiece with a “Johnston Brothers / New York / Patented” and a “Johnston Brothers New York Patented Oct. 13, 1875, April 23, 1873, reissue May 8, 1877” inscription.
label: Description
content: Ref: William A. Johnston, “Improvement in Hand-Pieces for Dental Engines,” U.S. Patent 169,003 (Oct. 19, 1875), assigned to Johnston Brothers.
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 Penwalt Corporation, S.S. White Division
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0752.63
label: accession number
content: 1981.0752
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0752.63
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Handpiece, Dental
label: Object Name
content: handpiece
label: Other Terms
content: Handpiece, Dental; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in x 7 1/2 in x 1 3/4 in; 4.7625 cm x 19.05 cm x 4.445 cm