Vulcanizer
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Silas D. Palmer, “Improvement in Dental Flasks for Rubber,” U.S. Patent 159,441 (February 2, 1875). Silas D. Palmer (1812-1881) was a dentist in Toledo, Ohio, who assigned his patent to John R. B. Ransom, a businessman who provided supplies, instruments and furniture for barbers, doctors and dentists.
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.291116.161
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: patent number
content: 159,442
label: catalog number
content: 291116.161
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Vulcanizer
label: Object Name
content: vulcanizer, patent model
label: Object Name
content: dental device
label: Other Terms
content: Vulcanizer; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 6 in; 35.56 cm x 15.24 cm