Level
date: label: date made
content: circa 1960
name: label: user
content: Vogel, Robert M.
label: maker
content: L. S. Starrett Company
notes: label: Description
content: This level consists of a sighting tube, a bubble level hung below, a horizontal semicircle graduated to degrees, and a 4-legged base attached to a simple tripod. Starrett termed it a No. 101-A Leveling Instrument. Fairly simple and presumably inexpensive, it was clearly designed for practical rather than precision work.
label: Description
content: A paper label in the box reads: No. 101-A / TRADE MARK / STARRETT / REG. U.S. PAT. O. / LEVELING INSTRUMENT / THE L.S. STARRETT CO. / Athol, Mass., U.S.A. A stamped and handwritten mark on the box reads: Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering / U.S. National Museum / Washington, DC 20560 / U.S. GOVT. PROPERTY. A stamped mark inside the box reads: Division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering / U.S. National Museum.
label: Description
content: L. S. Starrett began in business in 1880, making a variety of precision tools, gauges, and measuring instruments. It probably made this particular instrument around 1960.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Athol
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0214.2
label: accession number
content: 2007.0214
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0214.2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: level
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 3/4 in x 8 in x 4 1/4 in; 32.385 cm x 20.32 cm x 10.795 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 11 1/2 in x 13 3/4 in x 4 7/8 in; 29.21 cm x 34.925 cm x 12.3825 cm