Dental Mallet
notes: label: Description
content: William G. Arlington Bonwill (1833-1899) was a dentist and dental inventor who practiced in Dover, Del., and then in Philadelphia. He introduced the magnetic mallet for dental purposes and obtained a patent for an electromagnetic dental mallet on 21 July 1873. A tag attached to this example reads "No. 4. Electro-Magnetic mallet. First Automatic Brake. 1872." A label pasted to mallet reads "First Automatic Brake Without Clock-work."
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 University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-08746
label: catalog number
content: M-08746
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mallet, Electro-Magnetic
label: Other Terms
content: Mallet, Electro-Magnetic; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 7 in x 2 1/2 in; 5.08 cm x 17.78 cm x 6.35 cm