[caption id="attachment_5212" align="alignright" width="121"] The Legion of Honour, or in full the National Order of the Legion of Honour is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte on May 19, 1802. Dr. Thomas W. Evans was presented the Knight rank of this highest decoration in France from... CONTINUE READING
One of the great, less-appreciated advances of the twentieth century was hydraulics. While the concept of using liquids to create force had been around for centuries, a true breakthrough came in 1906, when a system based on hydraulic oil was used to move the guns on a Navy ship, the U.S.S.... CONTINUE READING
Proper dentists didn’t exist across the pond until the 1800s. Prior, the care of Britains’s mouths was in the hands of blacksmiths and barbers who doubled as surgeons. Want all the grisly details? Historian Professor Joanna Bourke presents a documentary on the history of dentistry in... CONTINUE READING
Soon after the turn of the last century, the unit you see here emerged as the Cadillac of dental units (or, perhaps more accurately, the Duesenberg of its era). The brand carried a name that sounded modern for its time: ElectroDental. It contained a warm-air syringe, a cold-air syringe, a cold-air... CONTINUE READING
An alleged arsonist. An accused "bandit." Safe to say 2015 might not be a good year for two California practitioners. Leopold Weinstein, the owner of Dr. Leo, a dental practice on N. Ponderosa Road, in Camarillo tried to torch competing dental practices, according to a... CONTINUE READING