Furnace
name: label: maker
content: Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This device consists of a cylindrical furnace and a horizontal gas burner; the original base has been lost. The furnace is marked “No. 41” had has a metallic tag reading “BUFFALO DENTAL / MANUFACTURING CO. / BUFFALO, N.Y.” The base of the burner is marked, in raised letters, “BUFFALO DENTAL MFG. CO. BUFFALO N.Y.” Thomas Fletcher (1840-1903)—an English dentist, inventor, and pioneer of the gas engineering industry—designed the form.
label: Description
content: Ref: Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Co., <i>Catalogue and Price List of Dentists’ Supplies</i> (Buffalo, 1901), pp. 509 and 521.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Buffalo
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content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Department of Chemistry, Catholic University of America
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.316899
label: catalog number
content: 316899
label: accession number
content: 229658
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Furnace
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: furnace: 5 1/2 in x 6 1/4 in; 13.97 cm x 15.875 cm
label: Measurements
content: burner: 4 in x 11 1/2 in; 10.16 cm x 29.21 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; furnace: 5 1/2 in x 6 1/4 in; 13.97 cm x 15.875 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall; burner: 4 1/8 in x 11 3/8 in x 3 7/8 in; 10.4775 cm x 28.8925 cm x 9.8425 cm