Odontograph
notes: label: Description
content: A label on the base of this device reads “. . . / MANUFACTURED BY / THE ODONTOGRAPH CO. / GLENBROOK, CONN., U.S.A. / PATENTED MAY 18, 1920.” Percy Norman Williams (1877-1937), a New York orthodontist who moved to Arizona, invented the form. An announcement of 1920 stated that The Odontograph Co. had purchased all the dental appliances designed by Percy Norman Williams.
label: Description
content: Ref: Percy Norman Williams, “Odontometer,” U.S. Patent 1,340,354 (May 18, 1920).
label: Description
content: “Dr. Percy N. Williams,” New York Times (Feb. 10, 1937), p. 23.
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-09033
label: catalog number
content: M-09033
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Odontograph
label: Other Terms
content: Odontograph; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 9 3/4 in x 12 1/4 in; 22.225 cm x 24.765 cm x 31.115 cm