Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Spherical Triangles and Lunes
Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This cut and folded tan paper model consists of two discs and a ring, fit together to form lunes and spherical triangles. A sticker on the model reads: ST-LU*. Another sticker reads: Pat 1,192,483. Below this a sticker reads: A. Harry Wheeler.
- Compare MA.304723.667 and MA.304723.670. For a pattern, see 1979.3002.095. Several patterns stored with this one are from 1945.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ca 1945
- ID Number
- MA.304723.670
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.670
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 5 cm x 8.5 cm x 8.2 cm; 1 31/32 in x 3 11/32 in x 3 7/32 in
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Trigonometry
- Science & Mathematics
- Spherical Trigonometry
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1073392
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-199e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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