Measuring Tape
notes: label: Description
content: The U.S. Geological Society was organized in 1879 and, in 1887, began using thin steel tapes under a uniform tension to measure baselines. This example is 300 feet long with triangular brass handles, and no apparent markings. In use it would be stretched to a tension of 15 pounds. The Survey transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1907.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Gannett, <i>A Manual of Topographic Methods</i> (Washington, D.C., 1893), pp. 42-45.
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: PH.247950
label: catalog number
content: 247950
label: accession number
content: 47736
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Measuring Tape
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 9 1/2 in x 7 in; .9525 cm x 24.13 cm x 17.78 cm