Object Details
- patentee
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This tan cut and folded paper model consists of two ellipses, arranged perpendicularly, and three parallel elliptical rings perpendicular to both of these. It is collapsible. A paper tag reads: 355. Another mark reads: Model for Fig. 6. A third mark reads: Albert Harry Wheeler (/) 8 Shawmut St (/) Worcester, Mass Mathematical Model (/) or the Like (/) Filed Sept 3, 1914 (/) Serial No 860,041.
- On September 3, 1914, Wheeler applied for a UlS. patent for several forms of collapsible mathematical models. This object is the basis for Figure 6 in Wheeler's paent application and in the patent he was granted in 1916.
- Reference:
- Albert Harry Wheeler, "Mathematical Model," U.S. Patent 1,192,483, July 25, 1916.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- 1914
- ID Number
- MA.304723.200
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.200
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- white (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 5.5 cm x 11 cm x 7 cm; 2 5/32 in x 4 11/32 in x 2 3/4 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1066716
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-c2bb-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
