Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Fourth Powers
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This wooden skeletal model is made from sticks of varying thickness. The framework is a cube, with two perpendicular cross pieces on each of the six sides. Inside are two smaller cubes with sides similarly divided, and a smallest cube with no divisions on its sides. There are also various supporting sticks. The bottom edge on one side has small blocks of wood on it that are labeled A<sup>2</sup>B<sup>2</sup> and AB<sup>3</sup>. The cross piece above this has small blocks of wood that read AB<sup>3</sup> and B<sup>4</sup>. Several other edges are labeled. A mark in one corner reads: HD. Some rods are broken off.
label: Description
content: The model was received from Brown University. It is in the general style of Worcester, Massachusetts, mathematics teacher and modelmaker A. Harry Wheeler, who taught at Brown occasionally.
label: Description
content: Geometric figures have occasionally been used to represent mathematical equations, perhaps most notably the equation for the cube of two numbers, represented by a cube divided into two smaller cubes and six rectangles. This involves solids representing thirrd powers of numbers. Such a representation was called a cube root block (see 1990.0539.41 and 2005.3031.01). What Wheeler sought to do is unclear.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Brown University Department of Mathematics
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.304722.46
label: catalog number
content: 304722.46
label: accession number
content: 304722
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30.6 cm x 30.6 cm x 31 cm; 12 1/16 in x 12 1/16 in x 12 7/32 in