Accession No

2152

Brief Description

level, by Carl Zeiss, German, 1930 (c)

Origin

Germany; Jena

Maker

Carl Zeiss

Class

surveying

Earliest Date

1930

Latest Date

1930

Inscription Date

Material

metal; glass

Dimensions

height 190mm; length 340mm; breadth 130mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Transferred from Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 05/1969.

Inscription

‘CARL ZEISS
JENA Nr. 697 DRP DPGM’ (on telescope)

Description Notes

Metal alloy body, finished in black, grey and silver. Telescope (no cross-hairs) with lens cover. Bubble mounted on telescope. Whole telescope swivels but can lock in place with the bubble vertically over telescope. Bubble has reflector and glass plate on left side which can be swivelled and mirror on right side with rack and pinion movement along the bubble for sighting. No graduations. Axis clamp. Azimuth motion tangent screw and elevating screw on pillar support. Transverse bubble on base of pillar. 3 foot screws through single plate, 6 pronged clamp. Base plate clamps onto foot screws.

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