Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Two Lines and a Plane
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: To show relationships among planes and angles, A. H. Wheeler designed a series of what he called platform models. All of these had a rectangular platform, with other segments (often other rectangles) secured to it. This dark green plastic model has a rectangular base with two triangular pieces riseing from it that meet along one edge. A paper tag on the model reads: L-PL-L. Another paper tag reads: A. Harry Wheeler.
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.304723.733
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.733
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 4.8 cm x 7.7 cm x 4.8 cm; 1 7/8 in x 3 1/32 in x 1 7/8 in