Dental Articulator
name: label: maker
content: Hanau Engineering Company
notes: label: Description
content: Dental articulator associated with Rudolph L. Hanau (1881-1930), a mechanical engineer from Cape Colony, South Africa, who studied in Leipzig, Germany, and moved to New York City in 1906. Moving to Buffalo in 1918, Hanau became director of biomedical research at the University of Buffalo School of Dentistry, and established the Hanau Engineering Co., a firm that manufactured and distributed products related to the dental trade.
label: Description
content: Ref: Roger Engelmeier, “The History of Articulators: The Contributions of Rudolph L. Hanau and his Company—Part I," Journal of Prosthodontics 19 (2009): 409–418.
label: Description
content: Rudolph L. Hanau, “Dental Articulator,” U.S. Patent 1,586,739 (June 1, 1926), assigned to Jacob L. Stern, of Rochester, N.Y.
label: Description
content: Rudolph L. Hanau, “Dental Articulator,” U.S. Patent 1,668,845 (May 8, 1928).
label: Description
content: Rudolph L. Hanau, “Dental Manikin,” U.S. Patent 1,682,904 (Sept. 4, 1928).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.291116.244
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: catalog number
content: 291116.244
objectType: label: Object Name
content: articulator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 6 3/4 in x 7 3/4 in; 14.605 cm x 17.145 cm x 19.685 cm