Dental Articulator
notes: label: Description
content: Dental articulator designed by Frederick W. Stephan (1874-1965), a graduate of the Chicago College of Dental Surgery, and made by the Crescent Dental Manufacturing Co. This Chicago firm was established in 1896 by Hugo J. Chott (1878-1943) and Edgar L. Chott (1882-1942), brothers from Bohemia who were brought to the United States while still young children.
label: Description
content: Ref: Frederick W. Stephan, “Dental Articulator,” U.S. Patent 827,824 (Aug. 7, 1906).
label: Description
content: Crescent Dental Manufacturing Co. ad for Stephan crown and bridge articulators, in Popular Health Dental Supplement (Aug. 1925): 45. This mentions a U.S. Patent dated April 17, 1923.
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-08867
label: catalog number
content: M-08867
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: articulators
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 3 1/4 in x 2 1/2 in; 5.715 cm x 8.255 cm x 6.35 cm