Water Stage Recorder
date: label: date made
content: 1912
name: label: maker
content: Leupold, Volpel & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: A tag on this instrument reads "Stevens continuous water stage recorder, manufactured by Leupold & Voelpel, Manufacturers of Scientific Instruments, Portland, Oregon.” According to the donors, this is No. 13, made in 1912.
label: Description
content: Leupold, Volpel & Co. made scientific instruments in Portland, Oregon. Frederick Leupold (born in Germany circa 1876) was in Boston by 1891, and later moved to Portland. Adam Joseph Volpel (born in Poland in 1874) came to the U.S. circa 1888. In 1911, John C. Stevens asked Leupold & Volpel to manufacture a water level recorder of his design. He became a partner in the firm in 1915 under the name of Leupold, Volpel & Co.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Oregon, Portland
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.328621
label: catalog number
content: 328621
label: accession number
content: 273377
objectType: label: Object Name
content: water stage recorder
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 7/8 in x 23 3/8 in x 11 3/8 in; 22.5425 cm x 59.3725 cm x 28.8925 cm