Cubic Corporation EDM (Cubitape)
date: label: date made
content: 1971-1975
name: label: maker
content: Cubic Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: The DM-60, introduced in 1971, is a lightweight, infrared EDM, with a short range (distances from 1 foot to 1 mile) and a digital readout. New, it cost $3,988. An inscription on this example reads "CUBITAPE MODEL DM-60F SERIAL NO. 305 PATENT No. 3728025 CUBIC INDUSTRIAL CORP. a subsidiary of Cubic Corporation SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA." The patent (#3,728,025) for "Optical Distance Measuring Equipment" is dated April 17, 1973. The trademark for the name "Cubitape" is dated January 8, 1974. Cubic Industrial Corporation was in business from 1971 to 1975. The DM-60 was remarkably successful. This example was used in Alaska, perhaps in association with the petroleum pipeline. The U. S. Army Engineers used many instruments of this sort for construction work, as well as for topographic and mapping surveys.
label: Description
content: Ref: "Infrared Surveying Instrument is Automatic," <i>Engineering News Record</i> 186 (6 May 1971): 44.
label: Description
content: Advertisement in <i>Civil Engineering</i> 41 (Sept. 1971): 26.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, San Diego
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Surveying and Geodesy
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content: Measuring & Mapping
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: American Society of Civil Engineers. Civil Engineering
label: Related Publication
content: Engineering News-Record
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Richard C. Davis
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0194.01
label: accession number
content: 1996.0194
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0194.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: edm
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 1/2 in x 14 in x 10 in; 26.67 cm x 35.56 cm x 25.4 cm