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Plaque commemorating "The Smoot" standard of length

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Plaque commemorating a stunt for the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity wherein Oliver R. Smoot Jr. was used to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge in 1958.

Plaque reads" "This plaque placed in honor of the Smoot which joined the angstrom, meter and light year as standards of length, when in October 1958 the span of this bridge was measured, using the body of Oliver Reed Smoot, M.I.T. 1962 and found to be precisely 364.4 Smoots and one ear Commemorated at our 25th reunion June 6, 1987 MIT Class of 1962".

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