Poster Entitled Metric Is A Perfect Ten
date: label: date made
content: ca 1992
name: label: maker
content: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
notes: label: Description
content: .This colorful poster was distributed by the National Aeronautics and Space Association of the United States government to publicize the metric system. Printed on it is the message: METRIC (/) IS A (/) PERFECT (/) 10. The right edge of the 1 in 10 is divided into ten units. Each of these is divided in half. The entire edge measures 39 centimeters.
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content: In smaller print the poster reads: Metric Transition: (/) A Federal Government Initiative. The NASA logo also is printed. The object is undated.
label: Description
content: In 1991, President Bush issued an executive order encouraging the use of the metric system. Some sources suggest that the poster was issued in 1992, perhaps in response to this order. R. Maxwell Tinsley, who collected this poster, died in the year 2000
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: "Metric is a Perfect Ten," Iowa Digital Library, accessed October 11, 2019. This website gives a date of publication for the poster of 1992. How long it was published is unclear.
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: 2001.3009.01
label: catalog number
content: 2001.3009.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 2001.3009
objectType: label: Object Name
content: poster
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 36 in x 24 in x 1/16 in; 91.44 cm x 60.96 cm x .127 cm