Vulcanizer
Object Details
- Description
- Vulcanizers were used to harden rubber by means of sulfur and heat. The "Dr. B. T. Whitney, Buffalo, N.Y." inscription on this example refers to Benjah T. Whitney (1813-1869), a physician, dentist, and founding partner of the Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Co.
- Ref: S. S. White Co. advertisement for Whitney’s Vulcanizing Machine, in The Dental Advertiser (1869): 111.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1870
- date(s) of previous ownership
- 1985 12 05
- ID Number
- 1985.0972.01
- accession number
- 1985.0972
- catalog number
- 1985.0972.01
- Object Name
- Vulcanizer
- Other Terms
- Vulcanizer; Dentistry
- Measurements
- overall: 30 cm x 12 cm; 11 13/16 in x 4 23/32 in
- place made
- United States: New York, Buffalo
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Record ID
- nmah_738770
