Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This cut and folded tan paper model shows two parts of an hyperboloid facing one another in a paper frame. Each hyperboloid is formed from four folded pieces of paper that fit into a ring in the frame. Wheeler described the model as a "collapsible hyperboloid of two nappes." A paper tag on the model reads: 570. Another mark reads: Jan 7, 1916.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louise D. Campbell
- 1916 01 07
- 1916
- ID Number
- 1979.0102.356
- catalog number
- 1979.0102.356
- accession number
- 1979.0102
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 6 cm x 7.5 cm x 4.5 cm; 2 3/8 in x 2 15/16 in x 1 25/32 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1139618
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-b592-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
