comparison standard (meter and yard)
date: label: date made
content: circa 1870
notes: label: Description
content: The “H. J. Chaney 1870” inscription on this glass bar is that of Henry James Chaney (1842-1906), the long-term Warden of the Imperial Standards of the English Board of Trade. William A. Rogers (1832-1898), an American physicist interested in metrology, received the standard from Chaney in 1880, and took it with him when became a professor at Colby College.
label: Description
content: Ref: W. A. Rogers, “Determination of the Relation of the Imperial Yard and the Meter of the Archives,” <i>Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences</i> 15 (1879-1880): 273-313.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Charles E. Armentrout
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0079.01
label: accession number
content: 2010.0079
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0079.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: comparison standard (meter and yard)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall; case: 51 in x 9 in x 5 in; 129.54 cm x 22.86 cm x 12.7 cm