Object Details
maker
Baker, Richard P.
Description
This painted plaster model showing contour lines fits in an open wooden box.
In a catalog from about 1905, Baker described the surface shown as “An area which can be derived by deformation from 92 [e.g. model MA.211257.014] without losing the descriptive character of contours, except that the inloop curve becomes an outloop (which may occur in infinitesimal transformation). The contours are now curves of the type of equipotential lines, and the configuration is made as symmetrical as possible.”
References:
R. P. Baker, A List of Mathematical Models, [1905], p. 16. A copy of this document is in the Baker Papers at the University of Iowa Archives.
R. P. Baker, Mathematical Models, Iowa City, Iowa, 1931, p. 5.
Location
Currently not on view
Credit Line
Gift of Frances E. Baker
date made
ca 1900-1935
ID Number
MA.211257.015
accession number
211257
catalog number
211257.015
Object Name
geometric model
Physical Description
plaster (overall material)
wood (overall material)
metal (overall material)
white (overall color)
black (overall color)
plast.cast; screwed to plaster (overall production method/technique)
Measurements
average spatial: 4.4 cm x 20.6 cm x 20.4 cm; 1 23/32 in x 8 1/8 in x 8 1/32 in
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Data Source
National Museum of American History
Subject
Mathematics
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_1079952