Wye Level
name: label: maker
content: Buff and Buff Manufacturing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This level is marked "BUFF & BUFF MFG. CO. 7205 BOSTON, U.S.A." It was made after 1898 when Buff & Buff began in business, and before 1988 when the New Jersey Transit Bus Operations, Inc. transferred it to the Smithsonian. In 1918 it cost $140.
label: Description
content: Ref: Buff & Buff Mfg. Co., <i>Surveying Instruments</i> (Boston, 1918), pp. 68-69.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
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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: Buff & Buff Mfg. Co.. Surveying Instruments
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: New Jersey Transit Bus Operations, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0154.02
label: accession number
content: 1988.0154
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0154.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: wye level
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: telescope: 18 in; 45.72 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 10 in x 20 in x 5 7/8 in; 25.4 cm x 50.8 cm x 14.9225 cm