Object Details
- Description
- To show relationships among planes and angles, A. H. Wheeler designed a series of what he called platform models. All of these had a rectangular platform, with other segments (often other rectangles) secured to it.
- In this paper model, two intersecting rectangles are perpendicular to one another. A line on the vertical rectangle is perpendicular to the line of intersection of the rectangles.
- A mark on the model reads: Two Perpendicular Planes (/) with a Line in one of them (/) Perpendicular to the Line of Intersection (/) of the Planes (/) A. Harry Wheeler (/) 1916
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- date made
- 1916
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- tan (overall color)
- cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 7 cm x 11.5 cm x 7 cm; 2 3/4 in x 4 17/32 in x 2 3/4 in
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
