Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Two Skew Lines and Their Common Perpendicular
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: To show relationships among planes and angles, A. H. Wheeler designed a series of what he called platform models.This is similar to one of them.
label: Description
content: Two skew rods are glued to a rectangular wooden base. A second wooden rectangle is glued perpendicular the other one, on the other side of the rods - it represents the common perpendicular. A paper tag on the model reads: 234.
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.304723.588
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.588
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood, balsa (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 3 cm x 10.1 cm x 4.1 cm; 1 3/16 in x 3 31/32 in x 1 5/8 in