Dental Drill

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Description:

Dental drill with an “S. S. WHITE / PAT. APP’D FOR” inscription. This may be an early example of the improved dental drill for which Samuel S. White received U.S. Patent 167,208 (Aug. 31, 1875).

Location: Currently not on view

See more items in: Medicine and Science: Dentistry

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Credit Line: Gift of the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Company

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: MG.M-09509Accession Number: 232230Catalog Number: M-09509

Object Name: Engine, Dentaldental engine

Physical Description: metal, steel (overall material)wood (overall material)rubber, hard (overall material)leather (overall material)Measurements: overall: 1 in x 3 in x 9 in; 2.54 cm x 7.62 cm x 22.86 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-32c5-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1071221

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