Dental Surveyor
notes: label: Description
content: Frederick Lester Stanton (1873-1945), D.D.S., was an orthodontist in New York City. Rudolph L. Hanau (1881-1930) was a mechanical engineer, born in Australia and trained in Germany, who moved to New York City in 1906. Working together, the two men designed a device to survey a human dentition. This item is of that sort. An inscription reads “Stanton / Photographic Surveyor / Patented”.
label: Description
content: Ref: Frederick Lester Stanton and Rudolph L. Hanau, “An Instrument for Surveying and Mapping the Denture,” Transactions of the Panama Pacific Dental Congress 2 (1915): 38-76.
label: Description
content: Rudolph L. Hanau, “Dental Surveying Apparatus,” U.S. Patent 1,230,156 (June 19, 1917), assigned to Frederick Lester Stanton.
label: Description
content: “DR. FREDERICK L. STANTON,” New York Times (Jan. 2, 1945), p. 19.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: ZZ.RSN83625X72
objectType: label: Object Name
content: surveyor, pantographic