Prototype Games by A. Harry Wheeler
date: label: date made
content: 1946-1948
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: A. Henry Wheeler, a mathematics teacher, appears to have begun to design prototypes of games after he retired. Most of the paper and cardboard gameboards involved only squares and circles and most have neither a number nor a title. None of the gameboards include directions of how the game is to be played. This includes gameboard no. 27 that Wheeler labeled “Auto Assembly Line” and for which he was granted a US patent (2,456,098) in 1948. The title used on the patent is GAME BOARD AND PLAYING PIECES THEREFORE and the patent image associated with it includes images on two of the three hand dawn sheets in this file.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Games
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louise D. Campbell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.3002.133
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3002
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3002.133
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Games, Prototype
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 3 cm x 55 cm x 57.5 cm; 1 3/16 in x 21 21/32 in x 22 5/8 in