{"id":1187,"date":"2014-04-28T18:13:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T18:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homecheck.server285.com\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2018-01-24T16:27:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T16:27:47","slug":"tool-time-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"Tool Time – Level"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A level is one of the many tools we use on a regular basis. Since it is such an important tool for our trade we thought we’d do a little research on the level. Did you know…?<\/div>\n
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  • A spirit level or bubble level is an instrument designed to indicate whether a surface is horizontal (level) or vertical (plumb).<\/li>\n
  • Melchisedech Thevenot invented the spirit level sometime around February 1661.<\/li>\n
  • Early spirit levels had two banana-shaped curved glass vials at each viewing point and were complicated to use.<\/li>\n
  • In the 1920s Henry Ziemann, the founder of Empire Level Mfg, Corp., invented the modern level with a single vial.<\/li>\n
  • These vials have a slightly curved glass tube which is incompletely filled with a liquid, usually a colored spirit or alcohol, leaving a bubble in the tube.<\/li>\n
  • Alcohol instead of water is usually used because alcohol has low viscosity and surface tension, which allows the bubble to move and settle.<\/li>\n
  • A colorant such as fluorescein, typically yellow or green, may be added to increase the visibility of the bubble.<\/li>\n
  • A traditional carpenter’s spirit level is usually made of wood, aluminum or composite material with a small window in the middle where the spirit level is mounted. Two markings designate where the bubble should be if the surface is level.<\/li>\n
  • There are a variety of other types of spirit levels including: surveyor’s leveling instrument, torpedo level and electronic level.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    A level is one of the many tools we use on a regular basis. Since it is such an important tool for our trade we thought we'd do a little research on the level. Did you know...?<\/div>\r\n
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    • A spirit level or bubble level is an instrument designed to indicate whether a surface is horizontal (level) or vertical (plumb).<\/li>\r\n \t
    • Melchisedech Thevenot invented the spirit level sometime around February 1661.<\/li>\r\n \t
    • Early spirit levels had two banana-shaped curved glass vials at each viewing point and were complicated to use.<\/li>\r\n \t
    • In the 1920s Henry Ziemann, the founder of Empire Level Mfg, Corp., invented the modern level with a single vial.<\/li>\r\n \t
    • These vials have a slightly curved glass tube which is incompletely filled with a liquid, usually a colored spirit or alcohol, leaving a bubble in the tube.<\/li>\r\n \t
    • Alcohol instead of water is usually used because alcohol has low viscosity and surface tension, which allows the bubble to move and settle.<\/li>\r\n \t
    • A colorant such as fluorescein, typically yellow or green, may be added to increase the visibility of the bubble.<\/li>\r\n \t
    • A traditional carpenter's spirit level is usually made of wood, aluminum or composite material with a small window in the middle where the spirit level is mounted. Two markings designate where the bubble should be if the surface is level.<\/li>\r\n \t
    • There are a variety of other types of spirit levels including: surveyor's leveling instrument, torpedo level and electronic level.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nsource:wikipedia<\/em>\r\n\r\n<\/div>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hcp.dalegruberconstruction.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}