Patent Model? - Improvement in Survey-Instrument
Maker and role
William Kuebler, Sr. (b.1827, d.1900), Patentee
Production date
Aug 22 1876
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Painted wood, brass, iron
Measurements
10 x 4 3/4 x 11 1/8" (25.4 x 12.1 x 28.3cm)
Description
Kuebler's invention "has relation to surveying instruments; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement, in combination, of a transit and Y-level, forming a right-angular instrument; also, in the novel combination, with said instrument, of an axis-piece, whereby the level-telescope can be arranged to sweep in a vertical plane; and, finally, in the construction and novel arrangement of the frame and axis connection..." (Patent Number 181,451)
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Object number
2015.14.3830
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