Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Overlapping Circular Segments
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This cardboard model has a rectangular base with three flat discs on top of it. Most of semicircle cut out of each disc. Each disc has a nail that passes through its center and a thread that originates at the center and bisects the open part of the disc.A triangle cut out of the base may once have held the nails at its corners.
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.304723.510
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.510
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: string (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: gray (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut, glued and sewn (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: .5 cm x 8 cm x 11 cm; 3/16 in x 3 5/32 in x 4 11/32 in