Dental Plugger
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Alfred Williams, “Dental Pluggers,” U.S. Patent 164,244 (June 8, 1875). Williams (b. 1826), a dentist, assigned one-half of his patent rights to Gideon Sibley, proprietor of a dental depot in Philadelphia.
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.291116.478
label: accession number
content: 291116
label: patent number
content: 164,244
label: catalog number
content: 291116.478
objectType: label: Object Name
content: ?
label: Object Name
content: plugger, automatic, patent model
label: Object Name
content: dental instrument
label: Other Terms
content: ?; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, plugger: 1 1/8 in x 8 1/2 in x 1 1/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 21.59 cm x 2.8575 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, plugger attachment: 1 1/4 in x 5 1/8 in x 1 3/4 in; 3.175 cm x 13.0175 cm x 4.445 cm