Geometric Model of A. Harry Wheeler, Cylinder Transformable into a Hyperboloid of One Sheet
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This model has paper discs at top and bottom, with sixteen slips of paper for sides. Moving the slips transforms the cylinder into an oblique cylinder or a hyperboloid of one sheet. A mark on the model reads: 742.
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.304723.287
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.287
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 and folded (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 10.2 cm x 7 cm x 7 cm; 4 1/32 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in