Automatic Surveyor Level and Stake Setter
date: label: date made
content: ca 1916
notes: label: Description
content: The Automatic Surveyor Level and Stake Setter was an electrical instrument that would be mounted on a suitable vehicle and roll over the survey line. It was invented by Myron J. Dikeman (1882-1966) of Joliet, Illinois, and manufactured by the Dikeman Surveyor Company of Detroit.
label: Description
content: Ref: Myron J. Dikeman, “Surveying Instrument,” U.S. Patent 958,794 (May 24, 1910).
label: Description
content: “An Automatic Surveyor Level,” <i>Commercial America</i> 9 (1912): 37.
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.330318
label: accession number
content: 1979.0238
label: catalog number
content: 330318
objectType: label: Object Name
content: surveying, distance, automatic stake setter
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 in x 30 in x 48 in; 58.42 cm x 76.2 cm x 121.92 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: surveying instrument: 22 in x 47 1/4 in x 29 1/2 in; 55.88 cm x 120.015 cm x 74.93 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: frame with lid: 7 1/4 in x 8 1/4 in x 18 in; 18.415 cm x 20.955 cm x 45.72 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall:push handle: 1 1/8 in x 40 in x 12 1/8 in; 2.8575 cm x 101.6 cm x 30.7975 cm