exhibit case
notes: label: Description
content: This large exhibit case was used in the 1876 Exhibit in the Arts and Industries Building from the 1970s into the 1990s. A loan document associates it with object MA.309643 - a circular dividing engine received by the Smithsonian from the Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1929. According to the late curator of mathematics Uta C. Merzbach, she was told that the case actually was used earlier in the history of the National Museum.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.304643.02
label: accession number
content: 106350
label: catalog number
content: 309643.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: exhibit case
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 90 in x 90 in x 104 in; 228.6 cm x 228.6 cm x 264.16 cm