Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Plane Parallel to Two Lines
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: To show relationships among planes and angles, A. H. Wheeler designed a series of what he called platform models.In this white plastic platform model, two intersecting rectangles are both perpendicular to third rectangle which serves as the base. The base is parallel to two lines that are on the top of the intersecting triangles.
label: Description
content: It is quite possible that this model was inspired by Wheeler's reading of George Wentworth.
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content: Reference::
label: Description
content: George A. Wentworth, <I>Plane and Solid Geometry</I>, Boston: Ginn, 1899,. Wentworth discusses this situation in Book VI, on lines and planes.
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.304723.538
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.538
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 4 cm x 7.7 cm x 2.8 cm; 1 9/16 in x 3 1/32 in x 1 3/32 in