Dental Drill
Dental Drill
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- Description
- Patent model for Mahlon I. Gallager, “Improvement in Automatic Dental Drills,” U.S. Patent 135,109 (Jan. 21, 1873). Mahlon I. Gallager lived in Savannah, Ga., and was apparently the designer of the Gallager Carbine used by Union soldiers during the Civil War.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Drill, Dental
- drill, automatic, patent model
- dental device
- Other Terms
- Drill, Dental; Dentistry
- date made
- 1873
- Measurements
- overall: 2 in x 8 3/4 in x 3 3/8 in; 5.08 cm x 22.225 cm x 8.5725 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-04234
- catalog number
- M-04234
- accession number
- 89797
- patent number
- 135,109
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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