Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This cut and folded tan paper model shows two spherical triangles symmetrically located on opposite side of a sphere (only arcs of the sphere is shown). Both of the spherical triangles are subdivided, although the divisions have collapsed.
- The model is among those Wheeler dubbed collapsible.
- Compare MA.304723.168.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- 1916 08 20
- ID Number
- MA.304723.174
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.174
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 2.5 cm x 5 cm x 5 cm; 31/32 in x 1 31/32 in x 1 31/32 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_1066634
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-0479-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
