Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Triangular Wedge between Two Parallel Planes
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: To show relationships among planes and angles, A. H. Wheeler designed a series of what he called platform models.This colorful plastic model is one of them. It shows two angles not in the same plane that have sides that are respectively parallel and lying on the same side of the straight line joining their vertices. The angles are equal..
label: Description
content: A paper tag on the model reads: 2A.. Another paper tag reads: A. Harry Wheeler.
label: Description
content: Compare Wentworth & Smith, Book VI, Prop. XIII.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: G.A. Wentworth and D. E. Smith, <I>Plane and Solid Geometry</I>,, Boston: Ginn, 1913, p. 290
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.304723.547
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.547
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: orange (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 4.3 cm x 8.3 cm x 4.9 cm; 1 11/16 in x 3 9/32 in x 1 15/16 in