Wye Level
name: label: maker
content: W. & L. E. Gurley
notes: label: Description
content: Although the Gurley firm did not begin using serial numbers until 1908, its level makers began stamping a serial number on the bottom of each baseplate in 1900. This level is stamped 2478, and is marked "W. & L. E. GURLEY, TROY, N.Y." Company records reveal that it is one off four identical levels that Gurley made for New York University in 1906. New, with tripod, it cost $110. The Bronx Community College, which had taken possession of the Bronx campus of New York University, donated it to the Smithsonian.
label: Description
content: Ref: W. & L. E. Gurley, <i>Manual of the Principal Instruments used in American Engineering and Surveying</i> (Troy, N.Y. 1905), pp. 152–166.
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. Manual of the Prinicipal Instruments Used in American Engineering and Surveying; 38th Edition
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: New York University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.335222
label: accession number
content: 314672
label: catalog number
content: 335222
objectType: label: Object Name
content: wye level
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: telescope: 20 in; 50.8 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 5/8 in x 23 in x 5 7/8 in; 24.4475 cm x 58.42 cm x 14.9225 cm