Dental Articulator
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Daniel T. Evans, “Improvement in the Apparatus for Obtaining Casts of the Teeth and Gums, and the Mode of Adjusting the Casts when Taken,” U.S. Patent 1,743 (August 28, 1840). Evans was a dentist in Philadelphia. His articulator was apparently the first with which dentists could reproduce the movement of the human jaw and make casts of the teeth and gums.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04155
label: catalog number
content: M-04155
label: patent number
content: 1,743
label: accession number
content: 89797
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Articulator, Evans
label: Object Name
content: articulator
label: Other Terms
content: Articulator, Evans; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 875 in x 2 7/8 in x 3 7/8 in; 2222.5 cm x 7.3025 cm x 9.8425 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 2 7/8 in x 3 7/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 7.3025 cm x 9.8425 cm