Geometric Model by E. M. Summerscales, a Student of A. Harry Wheeler, Union of Five Tetrahedra
date: label: date made
content: 1925 04 25
name: label: maker
content: Summerscales, Edith May
notes: label: Description
content: This cut and folded paper model shows intersecting regular tetrahedra in four colors (sides associated with two tetrahedra are tan). A mark on the model reads: 395. Another mark reads: E.M. Summers CL '25 (/) Apr 25.
label: Description
content: Compare (for the same surface) MA.304723.209, MA.304723.217, and MA.304723.225.
label: Description
content: Model 1979.0102.234 and model 1979.0102.221 are marked in the same handwriting and undated. Model 1979.0102.234 is signed: E. Summerscales. Model 1979.0102.221 is signed Summerscale.This third model (MA.304723.217) has the signature E. M. Summers. A fourth model, MA.304723.515, is signed: E. Summerscales.
label: Description
content: According to the Brown University Archives, there was no graduate of Brown University or Pembroke College with the last name of Summers until 1935 and his first name was Robert. Hence it seems likely that all four models were made by Edith May Summerscales (1903-1976), who graduated from Pembroke College in 1925. She was from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and became a mathematics teacher in a junior high school there.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
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.304723.217
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.217
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 8.2 cm x 11.5 cm x 11.5 cm; 3 7/32 in x 4 17/32 in x 4 17/32 in