Wye Level
name: label: maker
content: Queen and Company
notes: label: Description
content: This is marked "QUEEN & CO. PHILADA 6750." The firm termed it an Improved Engineer's Y Level, and priced it at $110. The serial number suggests a date from the mid-1890s. The "QUEEN & CO., Inc." label in the box refers to the incorporation of the firm in 1896.
label: Description
content: Ref: Queen & Co., <i>Catalogue of Mathematical and Engineering Instruments and Materials</i> (Philadelphia, 1887), pp. 153-154.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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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: Queen & Co., Inc.. Catalogue of Mathematical and Engineering Instruments and Materials
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0319.01
label: accession number
content: 1980.0319
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0319.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: level (wye)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: telescope: 20 in; 50.8 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 9 7/8 in x 21 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 25.0825 cm x 53.975 cm x 16.51 cm