Soon, he graduated to making night tables and coffee tables; and then on to cupboards, before he eventually made his first chest of drawers, at age 17.
Specifically, it overstated the number of students who had graduated from high school in the top ten percent of their classes by twenty percentage points.
It consisted of a graduated circle inside which another could slide, carrying two small tubes diametrically opposite, the instrument being kept vertical by a plumb-line.