Lewis Cross-Bar Vulcanizer
name: label: maker
content: Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: Theodore G. Lewis (1836-1929) was a graduate of the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery who established a dental practice in Buffalo, N.Y. In 1891 he became president of the Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Co. This dental vulcanizer, widely advertised in the 1890s, incorporates several of his ideas.
label: Description
content: Ref: Theodore G. Lewis, “Dental Vulcanizer,” U.S. Patent 526,785 (Oct.2, 1894), assigned to the Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Co.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Theodore G. Lewis,” The Dental Cosmos (1929): 207-208.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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-08945
label: catalog number
content: M-08945
label: accession number
content: 218383
label: catalog number
content: 218383.0904
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vulcanizer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 in x 10 in; 45.72 cm x 25.4 cm