Geometric Model, L. Brill No. 114. Ser. 10.2 No. 30b, Surface of Revolution
date: label: date made
content: 1892
name: label: maker
content: L. Brill
notes: label: Description
content: In 1881, Gottlieb Herting, then a student in the technical high school in Munich where he worked under the direction of Alexander Brill, designed a set of eleven plaster models of surfaces of revolution. Herting would spend the rest of his career teaching mathematics and physics at an advanced high school (gymnasium) in Augsburg. The models would be published by Ludwig Brill of Darmstadt in 1885 as his Series 10, 30 (lettered a through l and given Brill numbers 113 to 123). A twelfth model in the series would be by another Brill student, Sievert. This is letter “b” in that series. This example was exhibited at the German Educational Exhibit at the Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, where it was purchased by Wesleyan University.
label: Description
content: The model shows the surface of revolution of a cubical parabola about the tangent line at its point of inflection. It is in two segments held together by two metal rods and nearly touching at two wires in the center. The round base slopes upward to a point. The top piece is the same shape, facing downward. Curves drawn on the surface are asymptotic curves, that is to say curves where the curvature is zero. A paper tag on the model reads: 114. Another tag reads: Rotat.-Fl. m. Asympt.-(Hpttgt.-) Curven. (/) Verl. v. L. Brill. 10. Ser. 2. Nachtr. Nr. XXXb.
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content: References:
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content: Ludwig Brill, <I>Catalog mathematischer Modelle. . .</I>, Darmstadt: L. Brill, 1892, p. 21,78.
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content: J. C. Poggendorff, <I>J.C. Poggendorffs biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften . . .</I>, vol. 4, Barth, 1904, p. 626.
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content: Angela Vierling-Claasen, <I>Mathematical Models at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology</I>, 2007, pp. 97-98. This document is available online.
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: 1985.0112.079
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0112.079
label: accession number
content: 1985.0112
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (supports material)
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content: paper (tags material)
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content: plaster (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15.2 cm x 14.5 cm x 14.5 cm; 5 31/32 in x 5 23/32 in x 5 23/32 in