Measuring Tape
name: label: maker
content: Chicago Steel Tape Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Flat steel tape graduated in feet, with the first foot graduated into tenths. One side of the frame is marked “CHICAGO STEEL TAPE CO. / CHICAGO.” The other is marked “C. & H. . . .GRS.”
label: Description
content: The Chicago Steel Tape Co. was established in 1891 by Lewis Abel Nichols (1851-1919), a civil engineer.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: UOP, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0701.04
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0701.04
label: accession number
content: 1982.0701
objectType: label: Object Name
content: measuring tape
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/4 in x 16 1/2 in x 10 in; 8.255 cm x 41.91 cm x 25.4 cm