Maker:

Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Company  Search this

Physical Description:

wood (overall material)

metal (overall material)

Measurements:

overall: 24.1 cm x 30.4 cm x 19.1 cm; 9 1/2 in x 11 15/16 in x 7 1/2 in

overall: 7 1/4 in x 8 in x 11 3/4 in; 18.415 cm x 20.32 cm x 29.845 cm

Object Name:

Bellows

Place made:

United States: New York, Buffalo

Description:

Foot-powered wood and leather bellows with inscriptions that read “BUFFALO DENTAL MFGC / BUFFALO, N.Y.” and “NO. 9” and “26 42 -5?” Thomas Fletcher (1840-1903)—an English dentist, inventor, and pioneer of the gas engineering industry—designed the form.

Ref: Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Co., <i>Catalogue and Price List of Dentists’ Supplies</i> (Buffalo, 1901), p. 509.

Location:

Currently not on view

Credit Line:

June W. Leonard

ID Number:

1991.0691.20

Catalog number:

1991.0691.20

Accession number:

1991.0691

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Medicine and Science: Chemistry

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-4514-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_332482