Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Pyramid with Circumscribed Prisms
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: Thiscut and folded tan paper model has a triangular prism for a base and two smaller triangular prisms stacked atop it. It may represent an inscribed pyramid, compared to the circumscribed pyramid used by George Wentworth in his discussion of the volume of a triangular pyramid.
label: Description
content: Compare MA.304723.179, MA.304723.589 and MA.304723.662.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: George Wentworth with David E. Smith,, <I>Plane and Solid Geometry</I>, Boston: Ginn and Company, 1906, p. 342.
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.304723.662
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.662
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 5.6 cm x 5.2 cm x 4.7 cm; 2 7/32 in x 2 1/16 in x 1 27/32 in