Iron Paperweight
notes: label: Description
content: Block of iron from a leg of the tripod for the portable vertical circle used by F.G.W. von Struve at the Pulkowa astronomical observatory, circa 1840. It was apparently given to Cleveland Abbe (1838-1916), an American astronomer who worked at that Russian observatory in the 1860s, and who used it as a paper weight.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0019.42.02
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0019.42.02
label: accession number
content: 1994.0019
objectType: label: Object Name
content: block of iron
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron; paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 in x 1 9/16 in x 1 5/8 in; 6.6675 cm x 3.96875 cm x 4.1275 cm