Model of Contour Lines by Richard P. Baker, Baker #92
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900-1935
name: label: maker
content: Baker, Richard P.
notes: label: Description
content: This painted plaster model showing contour lines fits in an open wooden box.
label: Description
content: In a catalog from about 1905, Baker described the surface shown as “a quasi geographical [sic] area containing 3 peaks, 1 hollow, and 2 passes. Contours, slope lines, ridge, and course lines are marked. An inloop and outloop curve occur.”
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content: References:
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content: R. P. Baker, <I>A List of Mathematical Models</I>, [1905], p. 16. A copy of this document is in the Baker Papers at the University of Iowa Archives.
label: Description
content: R. P. Baker, </>Mathematical Models</>, Iowa City, Iowa, 1931, p. 5.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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 Frances E. Baker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.211257.014
label: accession number
content: 211257
label: catalog number
content: 211257.014
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
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content: wood (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: white (overall color)
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content: green (overall color)
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content: blue (overall color)
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content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plaster cast. sides screwed. (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 4.5 cm x 20.6 cm x 20.4 cm; 1 25/32 in x 8 1/8 in x 8 1/32 in