Gunner's Level
notes: label: Description
content: Gunner’s levels came into use in in the sixteenth century, along with the increased use of heavy artillery that could be adjusted for elevation. Intricate and delicate examples were presumably used for display rather than service on the battlefield.
label: Description
content: Ref: John R. Millburn, "Gunnery Instruments and their Makers in the Eighteenth Century," <i>Journal of the Ordnance Society</i> 7 (1995): 27-44.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.321679
label: catalog number
content: 321679
label: accession number
content: 245711
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Gunner's Level
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 1 9/16 in; 15.24 cm x 3.96875 cm