NIST Encasement Now Protecting 'America's Birth Certificate'

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Uploaded by on Mar 6, 2008

A hermetically sealed glass and aluminum encasement built by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will protect the first world map to label the lands of the New World as "America" when the "Exploring the Early Americas" exhibition opens Dec. 13, 2007, at the Library of Congress (LOC) in Washington, D.C. The 40-square-foot, state-of-the-art display case is the new home for the 1507 Waldseemüller map, often called "America's birth certificate."

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http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tb2007_1212.htm#w-map

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  • Wow, I've never heard of that map. Very interesting!

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