surveyor's chain
notes: label: Description
content: This surveyor’s chain has 42 iron links (each about 8.5 inches long) and three shorter ones. The length overall is thus about 66 feet, as in a standard Gunter chain. Joseph Wright (1798-1898), an early owner, was born in North Carolina, surveyed public lands in Florida in 1824, and moved to Texas in 1851.
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.323711
label: catalog number
content: 323711
label: accession number
content: 1979.0769
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Surveyor's Chain (Gunter)
label: Object Name
content: Surveyor's Chain
label: Object Name
content: surveyor's chain
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall, bundled: 2 in x 10 in x 6 in; 5.08 cm x 25.4 cm x 15.24 cm