Object Details
- teacher of maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Summerscales, Edith May
- Description
- This cut and folded paper model shows has an Irregular tetrahedron, inscribed in the skeleton of t square prism. A mark on ine of the edges of the prism reads: E. Summerscales. Edith May Summerscales, who graduated from Pembroke College in 1925 and studied with Wheeler there, made several models that Wheeler kept.. See MA.304723.217, MA.304723.515, 1979.0102.221, and 1979.0102.234.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ca 1925
- ID Number
- MA.304723.515
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.515
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut, folded and glued (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 5.1 cm x 2.8 cm x 2.8 cm; 2 in x 1 3/32 in x 1 3/32 in
- place made
- United States: Rhode Island, Providence
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1071535
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-1d9d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
