Surveyor's Tape
name: label: maker
content: August Lingke & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This steel measuring tape has a brass case, handle, and folding crank. It measures 25 meters long, and is numbered every meter. The "A. LINGKE & CO IN FREIBERG" inscription refers to an instrument firm that was in business, as such, from 1859 to 1889.
label: Description
content: Albert Joseph Seligman (1859-1935) probably bought this tape when he studied mining engineering at Freiberg. He probably donated it to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his alma mater, around 1899, when he obtained a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Saxony, Freiberg
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Surveying and Geodesy
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Civil Engineering
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0300.06
label: accession number
content: 2001.0300
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0300.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Measuring Tape
label: Object Name
content: measuring tape
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall length: 25 m; 82 1/32 ft
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 5/8 in x 9 1/4 in x 8 3/4 in; 4.1275 cm x 23.495 cm x 22.225 cm