Artificial Teeth, Patent Model
date: label: date made
content: ca 1876
label: patent date
content: 1876-07-04
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Merrick Bemis, “Artificial Teeth” U.S. Patent 179,508 (July 4, 1876). Bemis lived in New London, Ct.
label: Description
content: From the patent application: "The object of this invention is to furnish sets of teeth for eating purposes for those whose front teeth remain good, which will enable them to thoroughly masticate their food, and, at the same time, will avoid the necessity of having the remaining teeth drawn.
label: Description
content: The invention consists in artificial teeth in which the plates are formed to fit over the natural teeth, and in which the teeth are all molars, and are arranged with the longer side inward, as hereinafter fully described."
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 Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.291116.077
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: patent number
content: US179508A
label: catalog number
content: 291116.077
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dentures, patent model
label: Object Name
content: dental device
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, as stored: 1 in x 2 5/8 in x 3 in; 2.54 cm x 6.6675 cm x 7.62 cm