Japanese Gauge
date: label: date made
content: ca 1876
notes: label: Description
content: This flat steel gauge has a hook at one end. A scale of equal parts along the edge runs from 5 near the hooked end to 50 near the opposite end.
label: Description
content: The object was received with group of Japanese instruments exhibited at the Centennial Expositon, a world's fair held in Philadelphia in1876. Compare 261309 and 261310.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Japan
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Drafting, Engineering
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Single Drawing Instruments
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.261309
label: accession number
content: 51116
label: catalog number
content: 261309
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gauge
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .3 cm x 27.5 cm x 5 cm; 1/8 in x 10 13/16 in x 1 31/32 in