Rubber Dam Punch
notes: label: Description
content: In 1879, The S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co. introduced a rubber dam punch recently devised by George Cook Ainsworth, a prominent dentist in Boston. Twenty years later, the firm introduced a new model incorporating features devised by Woodbury Story How (1820-1911). This example, with an SSW insignia, is of that sort.
label: Description
content: Ref: George C. Ainsworth, “Improvement in Punches,” U.S. Patent 216,992 (July 1, 1878).
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content: Woodbury Storer How, “Punch,” U.S. Patent 612,665 (October 18, 1898).
label: Description
content: S. S. White ad for “The Perfected Rubber-Dam Punch,” in The American Journal of Dental Science 33 (1899).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-08324
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content: M-08324
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content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: dam punch
label: Object Name
content: rubber dam punch
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 6 1/4 in x 1 1/4 in; 1.905 cm x 15.875 cm x 3.175 cm