Wye Level
name: label: maker
content: W. & L. E. Gurley
notes: label: Description
content: This is a standard architect's level with a relatively short telescope and a small graduated horizontal circle. Gurley began making levels of this sort in 1874 and was still making them fifty years later. According to company hyperbole, this level was “extensively used by intelligent and enterprising architects, builders and millwrights on construction and building work, as well as by engineers and surveyors in the grading of streets, sewers, irrigation ditches and drains.” This example is marked "W. &. L. E. GURLEY TROY N.Y." The lack of serial number indicates that it was made before 1908.
label: Description
content: Ref: W. & L. E. Gurley, <i>Gurley Engineering Instruments</i> (Troy, N.Y., 1920), pp. 68-69.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Troy
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Surveying and Geodesy
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content: Measuring & Mapping
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: W. & L. E. Gurley. Gurley Engineering Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: UOP Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0701.05
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0701.05
label: accession number
content: 1982.0701
objectType: label: Object Name
content: wye level
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 7/8 in x 4 7/8 in x 12 3/8 in; 17.4625 cm x 12.3825 cm x 31.4325 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 7/8 in x 4 7/8 in x 12 1/2 in; 17.4625 cm x 12.3825 cm x 31.75 cm