Dental Handpiece
date: label: Date made
content: 1947
name: label: maker
content: Chayes Dental Instrument Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Dental handpiece with a “Chayes / P-C ANGLE / MADE IN USA. / PAT PEND” inscription.
label: Description
content: Herman Edgar Samuel Chayes (1879-1933) was a dentist in New York, an inventor with several patents, and the founder of the Chayes Dental Instrument Corporation. The firm was in business by 1925, and in Danbury, Ct. by 1966. He was a Jew from Austria (or perhaps Germany or Russia) who immigrated to the United States in the early 1890s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Who’s Who in American Jewry (New York, 1926), pp. 93-94.
label: Description
content: “DR. HERMAN E. S. CHAYES,” New York Times (July 4, 1933), p. 13.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Dentistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: William B. Lee, D.D.S.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0663.01
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0663.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0663
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Handpiece
label: Other Terms
content: Handpiece; Dental Unit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: stainless steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.3 cm x 2.7 cm x 21 cm; 2 7/8 in x 1 1/16 in x 8 1/4 in