Wye Level
name: label: maker
content: F. Brandis & Co.
notes: label: Description
content: This level, which dates from the period 1875–1890 when F. Brandis & Co. was trading as such, is similar to the "18 Inch Patented Improved Wye Level as Made for U.S. Engineer Corps" that Brandis advertised in 1881, and that cost $140. The patent in question (#201,155), granted to Brandis on March 12, 1878, described a spindle attachment that connects the telescopic level to the leveling head. The compass on this example is marked "F. BRANDIS & CO., NEW YORK 531." A label in the box dates from the period 1878–1879 when Brandis was in business with Richard Teckritz. It reads: "BRANDIS & TECKRITZ, MAKE in the most accurate manner, ALL KINDS OF MATHEMATICAL & ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS. Theodolites, Transits, Leveling Instruments, Sextants, Quadrants, Etc. Etc. All kinds of Instruments re–divided, re–paired and adjusted. No. 55 FULTON ST. NEW YORK."
label: Description
content: Ref: F. E. Brandis, <i>Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of Instruments of Precision for Field and Astronomical Purposes</i> (New York, 1881), p.38.
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: Brandis, F. E.. Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of Instruments of Precision for Field and Astronomical Purposes
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.337013
label: accession number
content: 1979.0214
label: catalog number
content: 337013
objectType: label: Object Name
content: level (wye)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: telescope: 17 in; 43.18 cm
label: Measurements
content: level: 9 in; 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall in case: 5 in x 21 1/2 in x 9 1/4 in; 12.7 cm x 54.61 cm x 23.495 cm