Wye Level
name: label: maker
content: August Lingke & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This telescopic level has a horizontal circle that is silvered, graduated to 20 minutes, and read by opposite verniers with magnifiers to single minutes. Albert Joseph Seligman (1859-1935) probably bought it in the late 1870s, when he studied mining engineering at Freiberg. He probably donated it to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his alma mater, around 1899, when he obtained a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. A German silver tag on the box reads "Albert J. Seligman New York." The inscription on the level reads "AUGUST LINGKE & CO FREIBERG IN SA NO 2000."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Saxony, Freiberg
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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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Civil Engineering
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2001.0300.04
label: catalog number
content: 2001.0300.04
label: accession number
content: 2001.0300
label: serial number
content: 023252
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Wye Level
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: box: 11 in x 18 in x 9 1/16 in; 27.94 cm x 45.72 cm x 23.01875 cm
label: Measurements
content: level: 8 in x 16 1/8 in x 6 in; 20.32 cm x 40.9575 cm x 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 11 5/8 in x 18 5/16 in x 9 1/8 in; 29.5275 cm x 46.51375 cm x 23.1775 cm