Bellows
name: label: maker
content: Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Foot-powered wood and leather bellows with inscriptions that read “BUFFALO DENTAL MFGC / BUFFALO, N.Y.” and “NO. 9” and “26 42 -5?” Thomas Fletcher (1840-1903)—an English dentist, inventor, and pioneer of the gas engineering industry—designed the form.
label: Description
content: Ref: Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Co., <i>Catalogue and Price List of Dentists’ Supplies</i> (Buffalo, 1901), p. 509.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: June W. Leonard
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0691.20
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0691.20
label: accession number
content: 1991.0691
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bellows
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24.1 cm x 30.4 cm x 19.1 cm; 9 1/2 in x 11 15/16 in x 7 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/4 in x 8 in x 11 3/4 in; 18.415 cm x 20.32 cm x 29.845 cm