Dental Key
date: label: associated dates
content: 1859 08 02 / 1859 08 02
notes: label: Description
content: Dental key with a “B. F. KILLAM’S PATENT / AUG. 2 1859 / G H BURT” inscription. Benjamin F. Killam, the inventor, lived in Braintree, Vt.
label: Description
content: Ref: Benjamin F. Killam, “Tooth-Key,” U.S. Patent 24,940 (Aug. 2, 1859).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Vermont, Braintree
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: 1991.0293.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0293.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0293
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Toothkey
label: Object Name
content: dental coll object
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 15.4 cm x 8.7 cm x 2.5 cm; 6 1/16 in x 3 7/16 in x 31/32 in