Filmstrip and Audiotape, The Metric Song
date: label: date made
content: 1974
name: label: maker
content: J. C. Penney Company, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: In the mid-1970s, the United States seriously considered making metric units mandatory as well as legal. This filmstrip, audiotape, and leaflet were “prepared as an educational tool to help people learn the metric language,” and distributed by the Educational Relations Department of retailer J. C. Penney.
label: Description
content: The filmstrip and tape have separate plastic containers. They fit with the leaflet in a cardboard box with an orange lid. Text on the front of the audiotape reads: The Metric Song. Additonal text there reads: JCPenny. Text on the containers for the tape and for filmstrip reads: 1974. The leaflet gives the lyrics of the song and describes the contents of the ten-minute filmstrip.
label: Description
content: A mark in ink on the side of the box reads: R. M. T. The initials are those of R. Maxwell Tinsley, the father of the donor and a fellow of the U.S. Metric Association.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Metric System
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Jeffrey Tinsley
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.3009.03
label: catalog number
content: 2001.3009.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 2001.3009
objectType: label: Object Name
content: filmstrip and audiotape
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4.4 cm x 21.5 cm x 13.9 cm; 1 23/32 in x 8 15/32 in x 5 15/32 in