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. This one is A-shaped with striding level, and might have been termed an artillery foot level. The inscriptions read “M.O.” and “1774.”
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.317353
label: catalog number
content: 317353
label: accession number
content: 230279
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plumb level
label: Object Name
content: gunner's level
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 7/8 in x 10 3/4 in x 3/4 in; 14.9225 cm x 27.305 cm x 1.905 cm