Geometric Model, L. Brill No. 144. Ser. 8 No. 25c, Catenoid
date: label: date made
content: 1892
name: label: maker
content: L. Brill
notes: label: Description
content: This white plaster model of a catenoid has a round flat base and top and is indented at the center. The catenoid is a minimal surface, and the surface of rotation of a curve called the catenary. The model shows lines of curvature (parallels and meridians) as well as diagonal asymptotic lines A black metal strip (Brill's Model 145 - 1985.112.104) fits over part of it. A paper tag reads: 144. Another paper tag reads: Catenoid. (/) Verl. v. L. Brill. 8. Ser. Nr. XXVc.
label: Description
content: This is one of a series of models designed at the technical high school im Munich under the direction of Alerxander Brill. The series was first published in 1882.
label: Description
content: This example of the model was exhibited at the Columbian Exposition, a world’s fair held in Chicago in 1893.
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content: References:
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content: L. Brill, <I>Catalog mathematischer Modelle. . .</I>, Darmstadt: L. Brill,1892, p.17, 83-84.
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content: Accession file.
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content: G. Fischer, <I>Mathematical Models</I>,vol. I, p. 86 (Photo #90), vol. 2, pp. 43.
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: 1985.0112.103
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0112.103
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: 14.5 cm x 20 cm x 20 cm; 5 23/32 in x 7 7/8 in x 7 7/8 in