Vulcanizer
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for George E. Hayes, “Apparatus for Vulcanizing Caoutchout,” U.S. Patent 31,599 (March 5, 1861). George Hayes (1796-1882), a pharmacist and dentist in Buffalo, N.Y., was said to have been “among the first, if not the very first, to use porcelain for artificial teeth in this country.” He was also a founder of what became the Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Company.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dr. George E. Hayes,” The Dental Advertiser 13 (1882): 103-104.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Columbia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.291116.155
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: patent number
content: 31,599
label: catalog number
content: 291116.155
objectType: label: Object Name
content: apparatus, vulcanizing, patent model
label: Object Name
content: dental device
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/4 in x 5 1/2 in x 5 3/4 in; 15.875 cm x 13.97 cm x 14.605 cm