Object Details
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Description
- This small plastic model is of a scalene oblique spherical triangle. It consists of three discs of a sphere with a common center, whose straight edges are glued together to form the spherical triangle. None of the angles between the discs is a right angle (hence the triangle is oblique) and the three angles are unequal (hence the triangle is scalene).
- Models MA.304723.707 and MA.304723.710 are mirror images.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- ID Number
- MA.304723.710
- accession number
- 304723
- catalog number
- 304723.710
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- white (overall color)
- cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 3.1 cm x 5.2 cm x 4.3 cm; 1 7/32 in x 2 1/16 in x 1 11/16 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_1073518
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-314f-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
