Wye Level
name: label: maker
content: A.S. Aloe and Company
label: maker
content: Blunt and Company
notes: label: Description
content: The inscription on this wye level reads "A. S. Aloe Maker St. Louis No. 69 Blunt & Co. N. Y.” A. S. Aloe did sell optical and mathematical instruments, but there is no evidence that he could or did make them. Blunt & Co., which was in business under this name from 1869 to 1874, probably did make instruments of this sort.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, St. Louis
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.335533
label: catalog number
content: 335533
label: accession number
content: 321714
objectType: label: Object Name
content: wye level
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 7/8 in x 4 1/2 in x 16 3/16 in; 22.5425 cm x 11.43 cm x 41.11625 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in x 5 in x 18 3/8 in; 22.86 cm x 12.7 cm x 46.6725 cm