Wye Level
name: label: maker
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
notes: label: Description
content: By 1880, Keuffel & Esser was offering a "Y Level, Telescope 18–20 inch long, magnifying power 22 times, best make, guaranteed, in mahogany case, with Tripod complete" for $140. But since Keuffel & Esser did not begin manufacturing surveying instruments until 1885, these early K&E instruments were probably made by others.This example is marked "Keuffel & Esser New York 303" and probably dates from around 1885.
label: Description
content: Ref: Keuffel & Esser, <i>Catalogue & Price List</i> (New York, 1880), p. 102.
label: Description
content: Keuffel & Esser, <i>Catalogue of Transits, Levels, Etc.</i> (New York, 1885).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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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: Keuffel & Esser. Catalogue & Price List
label: Related Publication
content: Keuffel & Esser. Catalogue of Transits, Levels, Etc.
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Keuffel & Esser Co.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.333756
label: catalog number
content: 333756
label: accession number
content: 306012
objectType: label: Object Name
content: level (wye)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 5 in x 17 3/4 in; 24.13 cm x 12.7 cm x 45.085 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall with sunshade on: 9 5/16 in x 4 1/2 in x 19 7/8 in; 23.65375 cm x 11.43 cm x 50.4825 cm