Geometric Model by E.M. Summerscales, a Student of A. Harry Wheeler, Regular Icosahedron
date: label: date made
content: ca 1925
name: label: maker
content: Summerscales, Edith May
notes: label: Description
content: This tan paper model has twenty equilateral triangles for faces. A mark in pencil reads: Regular Icosahedron. Another mark in pencil reads: E. Summerscales.
label: Description
content: Model 1979.0102.234 and model 1979.0102.221 are marked in the same handwriting and undated. Model 1979.0102.234 is signed: E. Summerscales. Model 1979.0102.221 is signed Summerscale. A third model by a student of A. Harry Wheeler (MA.304723.217) has the signature E. M. Summers and a date of 1925. A fourth model (MA.304723.515) is signed: E. Summerscales.
label: Description
content: According to the Brown University Archives, there was no graduate of Brown University or Pembroke College with the last name of Summers until 1935 and his first name was Robert. Hence it seems likely that all three models were made by Edith May Summerscales (1903-1976), who graduated from Pembroke College in 1925. She was from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and became a mathematics teacher in a junior high school there.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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: 1979.0102.234
label: accession number
content: 1979.0102
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0102.234
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 cm x 4 cm x 4 cm; 1 9/16 in x 1 9/16 in x 1 9/16 in