Object Details
- Description
- This is one of six models designed by Walter Ludwig of Breslau on the suggestion of Felix Klein and with the participation of Frederick Schilling. It sold from 1902. Four models in the series show space curves of third order drawn on cylinders of various forms. All are plastic (celluloid) with metal frames. In this, the fourth of the four, the cross section of the cylinder is a parabola, making it a parabolic cylinder. The single curve drawn on the surface is a cubic parabola. The remnant of a paper tag on the base read: [. . .]rie Nr. 4 (/) [. . .] Schilling [. . .].
- References:
- Martin Schilling, Catalog, 1911, pp. 72-74, 132.
- Websites showing the model collection of the University of Groningen and the University of Göttingen, accessed November 14, 2017.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1905
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Department of Mathematics, The University of Michigan
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- iron (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 39 cm x 18.7 cm x 22 cm; 15 11/32 in x 7 3/8 in x 8 21/32 in
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
