Dumpy Level
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1960
name: label: user
content: Vogel, Robert M.
label: maker
content: Berger Engineering Instruments
notes: label: Description
content: Berger termed this a Service Dumpy Level, Model 110B, noting that it was a relatively inexpensive instrument designed for practical rather than precision applications. It consists of a telescope, a bubble level hung below, a horizontal circle graduated to degrees and read by vernier to 15 minutes, and a 4-legged base. A label on the box reads: BERGER / ENGINEERING INSTRUMENTS / BOSTON, MASS. 02119 / MODEL NO. 110B / MADE IN U.S.A. A note on the box reads: DIVN. of MECH. & CIVIL ENGRNG / U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM / WASHINGTON, D.C. 20560,
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
label: See more items in
content: Measuring & Mapping
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0214.1
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0214.1
label: accession number
content: 2007.0214
objectType: label: Object Name
content: level
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/2 in x 11 in x 4 in; 13.97 cm x 27.94 cm x 10.16 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 7 in x 12 3/4 in x 5 3/4 in; 17.78 cm x 32.385 cm x 14.605 cm