Sheets Relating to the Work of A. Harry Wheeler - Patent Drawings
date: label: date made
content: ca 1914
name: label: upatantee
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: These six sheets include three sheets of drawings on tan paper and three sheets of blueprints. The show are drawings for U.S. Patent 1,192,483. Wheeler applied for this September 3, 1914 and was granted it July 26, 1916. The patent describes ways of rperesenting of spheres, ellipsoids, cylinders and other three-dimensional surfaces from flat sectional pieces.
label: Description
content: Numbers 1979.3002.72 thru 1979.3002.76 are originally from the same package.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: A.Harry Wheeler, "Mathematical Model, U.S. Patent 1,192,483, July 25, 1916.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
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: 1979.3002.076
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3002.076
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheets, Set of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 29 cm x 41 cm x .5 cm; 11 13/32 in x 16 5/32 in x 3/16 in