Geometric Model, L. Brill No. 138. Ser. 8 No. 26c, Ellipsoid
date: label: date made
content: 1892
name: label: maker
content: L. Brill
notes: label: Description
content: This white plaster model is one of a series copied from originals at the technical high school in Munich, under the direction of Alexander Brill. It represents a rotational ellipsoid that can be unwound on the surface of a screw (for the a model of the screw, see 1985.097 - Brill #137). A grid of lines is indicated. This example is damaged and has no maker's stickers.
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content: The ;model follows ideas of E. Bour. The series was first publishedby Brill in 1882.
label: Description
content: This example of the model was exhibited at the German Educational Exhibit at the Columbian Exposition, a World’s Fair held in Chicago in 1893. It there was purchased by Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and subsequently was donated to the Smithsonian.
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content: References:
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content: L. Brill, <I>Catalog mathematischer Modelle. . .</I>, Darmstadt: L. Brill,1892, p. 17, 82.
label: Description
content: Accession file.
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: 1985.0112.098
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0112.098
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: Measurements
content: overall: 2.5 cm x 9 cm x 9 cm; 31/32 in x 3 17/32 in x 3 17/32 in