Dental Articulator
Dental Articulator
- Description
- Patent model for Eli T. Starr, “Improvement in Articulators,” U.S. Patent 78,151 (May 19, 1868). Eli Thompson Starr (1833-1904) was a Philadelphia dentist who worked for the S. S. White Dental Co. According to one account, “The fecundity of his inventive talent is evidenced by the fact that nearly one hundred different patents were granted to him, covering nearly every department of dentistry.”
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- articulators, patent model
- dental instrument
- Other Terms
- Dentistry
- maker
- Starr, Eli T.
- Measurements
- overall: 3 in x 4 7/8 in x 3 1/4 in; 7.62 cm x 12.3825 cm x 8.255 cm
- ID Number
- MG.M-04210
- catalog number
- M-04210
- accession number
- 89797
- patent number
- 78,151
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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