Turbine Drill
notes: label: Description
content: While working as a research associate at the National Bureau of Standards, Robert J. Nelsen led a team that developed the first high-speed dental drill. He donated this example to the Smithsonian in 1966.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Dentists Support Fast New Drills,” New York Times (May 21, 1957), p. 37.
label: Description
content: “Research in Dentistry Promises Great Advance,” Washington Post (July 2, 1967), p. A24.
label: Description
content: J. J. Herschfeld, “Robert J. Nelsen and the Development of the High Speed Handpiece,” Bulletin for the History of Dentistry 35 (1987): 37-42.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-11616
label: accession number
content: 267861
label: catalog number
content: M-11616
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drill
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 33 in; 1.905 cm x 83.82 cm