Model of Lines of Curvature on an Ellipsoid by Richard P. Baker, Baker #90
date: label: date made
content: ca 1900-1935
name: label: maker
content: Baker, Richard P.
notes: label: Description
content: This is a model of lines of curvature on an ellipsoid. The rectangular wooden base supports a plaster half-ellipsoid with grid of ellipses drawn on it. A tag on the model reads: No. 90 (/) LINES OF CURVATURE ON (/) ELLIPSOID.
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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, <I>Mathematical Models</I>, Iowa City, Iowa, 1931, p. 12.
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.211257.013
label: accession number
content: 211257
label: catalog number
content: 211257.013
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: black (overall color)
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content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plaster cast. screwed to base. (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7.2 cm x 17.8 cm x 22.6 cm; 2 27/32 in x 7 in x 8 29/32 in