Wye Level
name: label: maker
content: Brandis Manufacturing Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This "Engineers' Wye Level" is marked "BRANDIS MANUFACTURING CO. NEW YORK NO 1065." It was made around 1890 when the firm was trading as the Brandis Manufacturing Co. It incorporates the center spindle attachment described in Brandis's patent (#201,155) of 1878. New, it cost $140. A card in the box identifies its owner: "George C. Ham, C. E., Sanitary Inspector Connecticut State Board of Health."
label: Description
content: Ref: F. E. Brandis, Sons & Co., <i>Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue and Hand-Book of Instruments of Precision for Civil Engineers, Surveyors and Astronomers</i> (New York, 1902), pp. 72-74.
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: F. E. Brandis, Sons & Co.. Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue and Hand-Book of Instruments of Precision for Civil Engineers, Surveyors and Astronomers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Conrad S. Ham
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0548.07
label: accession number
content: 1983.0548
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0548.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: wye level
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: telescope: 17 in; 43.18 cm
label: Measurements
content: level: 8 in; 20.32 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 4 15/16 in x 21 1/2 in x 11 3/4 in; 12.54125 cm x 54.61 cm x 29.845 cm