Dental Mallet
name: label: maker
content: Bonwill, William G. A.
notes: label: Description
content: William G. Arlington Bonwill (1833-1899) was a dentist and dental inventor who practiced in Dover, Del., and then in Philadelphia. He introduced the magnetic mallet for dental purposes and obtained a patent for an electromagnetic dental mallet on 21 July 1873. A tag attached to this example reads "No. 8. Electro-magnetic mallet. Second mallet showing reduction in size. Has automatic brake." A label pasted to the mallet reads "First Change to Small Magnets & Automatic Brake. Perfect Instrument."
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 University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-08750
label: catalog number
content: M-08750
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mallet, Electromagnetic
label: Object Name
content: mallet, electromagnetic
label: Object Name
content: dental instrument
label: Other Terms
content: Mallet, Electromagnetic; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 7 3/4 in x 3 3/8 in; 4.445 cm x 19.685 cm x 8.5725 cm