Level
name: label: maker
content: Zeiss
notes: label: Description
content: The Ni A, Zeiss's first precise level suitable for first-order geodetic work, was produced during the years 1935-1941. This example may be one of the many instruments that American intelligence officers captured from the German geodetic office at the end of World War II. The United States National Imagery and Mapping Agency transferred it to the Smithsonian in 2000. The inscription reads "Ni A CARL ZEISS JENA No. 62166."
label: Description
content: Ref: P. Werkmeister, "Ein neues Nivellier instrument von Carl Zeiss für feinste Hoehenbestimmungen," <i>Zeitschrift für Instrumentenkunde</i> 57 (January 1937): 25
label: Description
content: Carl Zeiss, <i>Instructions for the Use and Adjustment of the Zeiss Precision Level A</i> (Jena, 1937).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Thuringia, Jena
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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: Carl Zeiss. Instructions for the Use and Adjustment of the Zeiss Precision Level A
label: Related Publication
content: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenkunde
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. National Imagery and Mapping Agency
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0257.04
label: accession number
content: 2000.0257
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0257.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Level
label: Object Name
content: level
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 1/2 in x 15 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 39.37 cm