Geometric Model by E. Summerscales, a Student of A. Harry Wheeler, Irregular Tetrahedron in Skeleton of a Square Prism
date: label: date made
content: ca 1925
name: label: teacher of maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
label: maker
content: Summerscales, Edith May
notes: label: Description
content: This cut and folded paper model shows has an Irregular tetrahedron, inscribed in the skeleton of t square prism. A mark on ine of the edges of the prism reads: E. Summerscales. Edith May Summerscales, who graduated from Pembroke College in 1925 and studied with Wheeler there, made several models that Wheeler kept.. See MA.304723.217, MA.304723.515, 1979.0102.221, and 1979.0102.234.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
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.304723.515
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.515
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut, folded and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 5.1 cm x 2.8 cm x 2.8 cm; 2 in x 1 3/32 in x 1 3/32 in