Estate Pulled Antique Gurley Engineering Stadia Transit Instrument

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Estate Pulled Antique Gurley Engineering Stadia Transit Instrument.
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According to the Gurley Precision Instruments history page: “The Gurley enterprise was established in 1845, first as the partnership of Phelps & Gurley and in 1852 as W. & L. E. Gurley. William Gurley and his younger brother Lewis E. were both engineering alumni of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, NY, and brought to the business a hunger for technical innovation and unrivaled marketing skill. Exposure at the Centennial Exposition in 1876 launched the company into international prominence from which it never fell. The brothers built a factory in 1852 that operated in departments, each department turning out different components, which were then assembled. This revolutionized the industry which, to that time, operated as small shops making, essentially, individual instruments. Gurley was able to roughly halve the price of their instruments over those of their competition, while maintaining quality.
Incorporated in 1900, Gurley responded to the worldwide demand for their products by opening the Seattle Factory Branch in 1909, to serve the Pacific Rim and Asia. Gurley remained highly visible to the engineering and surveying professions by supplying instruments to major engineering projects and to expeditions, like Admiral Byrd's. During World War II, Gurley distinguished itself by winning coveted Army-Navy E Awards for outstanding contribution to the war effort.”
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