Object Details
- Description
- To show relationships among planes and angles, A. H. Wheeler designed a series of what he called platform models.In this white plastic platform model, two intersecting rectangles are both perpendicular to third rectangle which serves as the base. The base is parallel to two lines that are on the top of the intersecting triangles.
- It is quite possible that this model was inspired by Wheeler's reading of George Wentworth.
- Reference::
- George A. Wentworth, Plane and Solid Geometry, Boston: Ginn, 1899,. Wentworth discusses this situation in Book VI, on lines and planes.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- Credit Line
- Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- white (overall color)
- cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 4 cm x 7.7 cm x 2.8 cm; 1 9/16 in x 3 1/32 in x 1 3/32 in
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
