Object Details
- Ross, W. W.
- Description
- This is one of a series of models illustrating the volume of solids designed by William Wallace Ross, a school superintendent and mathematics teacher in Fremont, Ohio. It is a wooden square prism with a base of 1 inch by 1 inch and a height of 3 inches. The object has no maker’s label.
- Ross took the fundamental unit of measure of rectangles to be one square inch, and the fundamental unit of measure for solids to be one cubic inch. He argued from there that a 1 inch x 6 inch rectangle had an area of 6 square inches (see 1985.0112.191). Similarly, this solid model consisted of 3 cubic inches. He would go on to consider several square prisms lined up end to end, and may have intended for this to be one of them. See 1985.0112.206 for two closely related models. These are also shown in the photograph.
- Compare models 1985.0112.205 through 2012.0112.217.
- For further information about Ross models, including references, see 1985.0112.190.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Wesleyan University
- ca 1895
- ID Number
- 1985.0112.207
- catalog number
- 1985.0112.207
- accession number
- 1985.0112
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2.5 cm x 7.5 cm x 2.5 cm; 31/32 in x 2 15/16 in x 31/32 in
- place made
- United States: Ohio, Fremont
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Arithmetic Teaching
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_694084
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-1b1c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
