The Boston Globe
“Made to Measure,” a permanent exhibit at the MIT Museum, offers visitors a peek at the science of measurement, showcasing instruments that have been central to scientific research and discovery at MIT and beyond, reports Mark Feeney for The Boston Globe. The exhibit’s displays explore strength, temperature, length and more. The "How Far?" display “includes a taffrail log (used by sailors to measure distance), pedometers, a surveyor’s tape, a transit theodolite, several rulers, and a Smoot bar," Feeney explains, “a unit of measurement based on the height of MIT undergraduate Oliver Smoot.”