Prototype Games by A. Harry Wheeler
date: label: date made
content: 1945-1948
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: A. Henry Wheeler, a mathematics teacher, appears to have begun to design prototypes of games after he retired. Most of the almost 200 paper and cardboard gameboards involved only squares and circles. One gameboard was mounted on a handmade wooded frame and at least two are made of a few pieces of cardboard and include one or more top circular boards attached to a bottom board using metal clips at the center of the circle. While many of the games have titles, e.g., DOUBLE – IT OR HALVE IT (number 8) and THE MOTH AND THE FLAME (number 167), it is not clear how most of them were played. One, Quizmaster,Game, includes directions.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Games
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louise D. Campbell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.3002.132
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3002.132
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Games, Prototype
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
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content: yellow (overall color)
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content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 8 cm x 41.5 cm x 43 cm; 3 5/32 in x 16 11/32 in x 16 15/16 in