Geometric Model, L. Brill No. 203. Ser. 17 No. 1, Minimal Surface
date: label: date made
content: 1892
name: label: maker
content: L. Brill
notes: label: Description
content: This white plaster model of a minimal surface is supported by three metal rods above a black wooden stand. A grid of parabolas, as well as a single red line, are indicated. There are no labels.
label: Description
content: The model was designed by Hjalmar Tallqvist (1870-1958), a student at the University of Helsinki, under the direction of E. R. Neovius.
label: Description
content: This example of the model was exhibited at the Columbian Exposition, a world’s fair held in Chicago in 1893.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: L. Brill, <I>Catalog mathematischer Modelle. . .</I>, Darmstadt: L. Brill, 1892, p. 39, 84-85.
label: Description
content: Fischer, Gerd, ed., <I>Mathematical Models</I>, vol. 1, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden: Vieweg, 1986, p. 89.
label: Description
content: Fischer, Gerd, ed., <I>Mathematical Models</I>, vol. 2, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden: Vieweg, 1986, pp. 39-40.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hesse, Darmstadt
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 Wesleyan University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0112.156
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0112.156
label: accession number
content: 1985.0112
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 33.5 cm x 40 cm x 29.5 cm; 13 3/16 in x 15 3/4 in x 11 5/8 in