Robert Studebaker Oral History
name: label: Interviewee
content: Studebaker, Robert
label: Interviewer
content: Warner, Deborah Jean
label: Creator
content: Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
label: Names
content: Process Equipment Company
label: Names
content: Spectra Precision
title: label: Topic
content: LaserPlane
topic: label: Topic
content: Tools -- 1960-1970 -- United States
label: Topic
content: Level indicators -- 1960-1970
label: Topic
content: Leveling -- 1960-1970
label: Topic
content: Inventors -- 1950-2000
label: Topic
content: Inventions -- 1960-1970
label: Topic
content: Civil engineering -- 1960-1970
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Created by the Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, National Museum of American History, 1998.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Studebaker, Robert
label: Interviewer
content: Warner, Deborah Jean
label: Creator
content: Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
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content: Robert Studebaker Oral History
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.25 Cubic feet (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1998.
custodhist: label: Ownership and Custodial History
content: Oral History was created by Lemelson Center and NMAH staff Deborah Warner.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0670
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Oral history
label: Type
content: Videotapes
label: Type
content: Interviews
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Divided into 3 series: (1) Original videos; (2) Master videos; (3) Reference videos.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection processed by Alison Oswald, 1999.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Oral history -- 1990-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Videotapes -- 1990-2000
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews -- 1980-2000
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Collection documents Robert Studebaker, inventor of the LaserPlane, the first modern alternative to the liquid level. The first model was introduced in 1965.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Archival Materials
content: LaserPlane models located in NMAH Division of Science, Medicine and Society (now Division of Medicine and Science).