Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Hyperbolic Paraboloid
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The paper skeleton of this cut and folded model is a skeleton cube holding a skeleton regular tetrahedron. Red strings join two opposite sides of the tetrahedron. Additional red strings join two other opposide sides to form a hyperbolic paraboloid.
label: Description
content: A tag on the model reads: 91.
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.304723.114
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.114
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 8.6 cm x 8.1 cm x 8 cm; 3 3/8 in x 3 3/16 in x 3 5/32 in