Geometric Model by G. A. Barnard III, a Student of A. Harry Wheeler, Spherical Triangle
date: label: date made
content: 1938 05 04
name: label: teacher
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
label: maker
content: Barnard III, G. A.
notes: label: Description
content: This folded, cut, and glued brown paper model shows a spherical triangle. It is made up of three adjacent circular sectors centered at the center of the sphere. Holes are cut in the sectors, as in other Wheeler models, but there are no pieces that fit in the holes. It seems likely the model is now incomplete.
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content: A signature reads: G. A. Barnard 3<sup>d</sup> (/) 5/4 1938.
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content: A radio enthusiast named George Barnard graduated from North High School in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1938. A radio enthusiast named George Augustus Barnard III (1921-2015) from Worcester, Massachusetts, graduated from Exeter in 1939, having spent one year there. According to an obituary, this second Barnard went on to study electrical engineering at Harvard College, obtaining an accelerated bachelor’s degree in 1942. He then entered the U.S. Army, working on radar. Barnard would earn a master’s in electrical engineering from Stanford and then “spent several years performing aero-magnetic surveys for oil in Venezuela, Colombia, India, and Peru; participated in the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) effort to create the world's first commercial computer (for Bank of America); and worked at Ampex (tape recorders), Philco/Ford (Gemini and Apollo space programs), Boeing, and Weyerhaeuser.” It seems likely that the two Barnards are one and the same man, the maker of this model.
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content: References:
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content: North High School yearbooks.
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content: Online obituary of George Augustus Barnard III, Cascade memorial, accessed February 12, 2016.
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: Trigonometry
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Spherical Trigonometry
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.304723.481
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.481
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7.6 cm x 12.5 cm x 10 cm; 3 in x 4 29/32 in x 3 15/16 in