Artificial Tooth
name: label: maker
content: Land, Charles Henry
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Charles H. Land, “Artificial Tooth,” U.S. Patent 271,476 (Jan. 30, 1883). Charles Henry Land (1847-1922) was a Detroit dentist who promoted the use of porcelain teeth and gold crowns. He was also a grandfather of the aviator Charles Lindbergh.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
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.291116.118.01
label: patent number
content: 271476
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: catalog number
content: 291116.118.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: artificial tooth, patent model
label: Object Name
content: dental demonstration device
label: Other Terms
content: Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 3/4 in x 1/2 in; .9525 cm x 1.905 cm x 1.27 cm