Cone Cut by Conic Sections, Geometric Model Owned by A. Harry Wheeler
name: label: owner
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This solid wooden model is stained dark brown. It is cut by three planes to form an ellipse, part of a parabola, and part of a hyperbola. The pieces are held together by wooden dowels.
label: Description
content: This example was owned by A. Harry Wheeler, but seems like a standard madeol made commerically for classroom use. There is no maker's mark.
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: 1979.3002.021
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3002.021
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: doweled with wooden pins (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 14.5 cm x 12.5 cm x 12.5 cm; 5 23/32 in x 4 29/32 in x 4 29/32 in