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Unidentified Museum Objects, Revisited

New mysteries and some potential solutions

Fran Webber
Thu, 05/10/2018 - 12:02
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Much like your attic, garage or basement, the NIST archives are home to quite a number of arcane objects of unclear origin and purpose. We periodically collect these victims of misplaced paperwork and present them in a series we call “Unidentified Museum Objects.” We invite you to put on your thinking caps and help us figure what these relics might be.

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New mysteries

Item 0290
The museum collection notes this is possibly a strain gauge and certainly made by the B.C. Ames Co. of Waltham, Massachusetts. Their tagline is “Masters of Measurement.”

The gauntlet has been thrown.

Item 0290. A strain gauge? Metric wall clock? The world may never know. (Credit: NIST Museum)

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