Engineer's Chain
name: label: maker
content: Chesterman, Mr. A. E.
notes: label: Description
content: Engineer's chain with one hundred iron links, each with two connecting rings; a brass tally every ten links; a wrapped wire swivel at fifty feet and a brass Dee handle at each end. One side of the fifty-foot tally is stamped "CHESTERMAN SHEFFIELD, ENGr." and carries the “JC” trade mark of the firm.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Walton G. Banks, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.1024.01
label: catalog number
content: 1984.1024.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.1024
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chain, engineer's
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: wire: 2.8 mm; 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 87 mm; 3 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall, bundled: 3 1/2 in x 13 in x 5 in; 8.89 cm x 33.02 cm x 12.7 cm