Dental Drill
date: label: date made
content: 1873
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Mahlon I. Gallager, “Improvement in Automatic Dental Drills,” U.S. Patent 135,109 (Jan. 21, 1873). Mahlon I. Gallager lived in Savannah, Ga., and was apparently the designer of the Gallager Carbine used by Union soldiers during the Civil War.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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: MG.M-04234
label: catalog number
content: M-04234
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 135,109
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drill, Dental
label: Object Name
content: drill, automatic, patent model
label: Object Name
content: dental device
label: Other Terms
content: Drill, Dental; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 8 3/4 in x 3 3/8 in; 5.08 cm x 22.225 cm x 8.5725 cm