Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Ruled Surface (Quartic Scroll)
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The model has a cardboard disc for a base and a rectangular frame extending from a diameter of the disc. Strings join points on the outer rim to the circle to points on the top of the rectangle.
label: Description
content: A mark on the pice of cardboard used to make part of the model reads: ANDERSON'S (/) Providence - Pawtucket. This suggests that the model was made when Wheeler was at Brown University.
label: Description
content: For a matheamtically related model, see MA.211257.010.
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: 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.304723.561
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.561
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: string (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: threaded (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: flattened: 1.5 cm x 12.7 cm x 12.7 cm; 19/32 in x 5 in x 5 in