5 Meter Bar
notes: label: Description
content: The U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey designed and built this 5-meter zinc and steel compensated base apparatus in 1880-1881 and transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1914. The “Shott 5m. F. Sta. Bar No. 2” inscription on a tag attached to the wooden box refers to Charles Anton Schott (1826-1901), a man from Mannheim, Germany, who moved to the United States in 1848, after having graduated from the Technical School in Carlsruhe, and joined the staff of the U.S. Coast Survey.
label: Description
content: Ref: C. A. Schott, “New Compensation Base Apparatus Including the Determination of the Length of (Two) 5-Metre Standard Bars,” United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Report (1882), Appendix 7, pp. 107-138.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Coast & Geodetic Survey, Department of Commerce
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.285232
label: accession number
content: 57456
label: catalog number
content: 285232
objectType: label: Object Name
content: 5-meter Bar
label: Object Name
content: 5-meter bar
label: Object Name
content: 5 meter bar
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 208 in x 9 in; 24.13 cm x 528.32 cm x 22.86 cm