Dental Mallet
notes: label: Description
content: Dental mallet (or plugger) with a "W. G. A. Bonwill, Pat. Nov. 16, 1875" inscription. William G. Arlington Bonwill (1833-1899) was a dentist and dental inventor who practiced in Dover, Del., and then in Philadelphia, and who introduced the electromagnetic mallet for dental purposes.
label: Description
content: Ref: William G. A. Bonwill, “Improvement in Electro-Magnetic Dental Pluggers,” U.S. Patent 170,045 (Nov. 16, 1875).
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-08758
label: catalog number
content: M-08758
label: accession number
content: 218383
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Electric mallet
label: Other Terms
content: ?; Electric mallet; Dentistry