Dental Flask
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Alfred James Jordan, “Improvement in Dental Flasks,” U.S. Patent 172,029 (Jan. 11, 1876). An inscription on the lid reads “MUTUAL COMBINATION FLASK.” Jordan, who lived in Bermuda, assigned his patent rights to Samuel Stockton White of Philadelphia.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04251
label: catalog number
content: M-04251
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 172,029
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dental device
label: Object Name
content: flask, patent model
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in x 3 7/8 in x 4 in; 6.0325 cm x 9.8425 cm x 10.16 cm