Latitude Level for Solar Transit
notes: label: Description
content: This is part of a Gurley “Patent Latitude Level.” The inscriptions read “W. & L. E. GURLEY / TROY, N.Y.”
label: Description
content: Ref: Edward W. Arms, “Solar Surveying-Instrument,” U.S. Patent 423,894 (March 20, 1890), assigned to W. & L. E. Gurley.
label: Description
content: W. &. L. E. Gurley, <i>A Manual of the Principal Instruments Used in American Engineering and Surveying</i> (Troy, N.Y., 1891), pp. 68-69.
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content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: LaVerne Watkins
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0403.04
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0403.04
label: accession number
content: 1989.0403
objectType: label: Object Name
content: latitude level for solar transit
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in x 4 1/8 in x 7/8 in; 5.715 cm x 10.4775 cm x 2.2225 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 4 in x 3/4 in; 5.3975 cm x 10.16 cm x 1.905 cm