Casting Apparatus
notes: label: Description
content: A tag on the base of this device reads “THE CUSTER / ELECTRIC / CASTING APPLIANCE / VOLTS 110 PAT. APPD. FOR.” Levitt Ellsworth Custer (1863-1924) was a graduate of Otterbein University and the Ohio College of Dental Surgery who established a dental practice in Dayton, Ohio.
label: Description
content: Ref: Levitt E. Custer, “Electric Muffle or Heater,” U.S. Patent 569,911 (Oct. 20, 1896).
label: Description
content: Levitt E. Custer, “Electric Oven,” U.S. Patent 793,424 (June 27, 1905).
label: Description
content: Levitt E. Custer, Dental Electricity (Dayton, 1901).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Penwalt Corporation, S.S. White Division
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1981.0752.48
label: accession number
content: 1981.0752
label: catalog number
content: 1981.0752.48
objectType: label: Object Name
content: casting appliance
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 in x 5 in x 5 in; 17.78 cm x 12.7 cm x 12.7 cm