Object Details
- Baker, Richard P.
- Description
- The nineteenth century saw a remarkable expansion of knowledge of electricity, including study of the magnetism associated with wires carrying electrical currents. One who wrote on the subject was the German teacher Hermann Grassmann (1809-1877). This is a representation of a current element after the ideas of Grassmann. The model is part of a collection of surfaces prepared by Richard P. Baker, a mathematician at the University of Iowa.
- This particular example of the model was on loan from Baker for exhibition at MIT from 1939 until the mid-1950s. It, along with the other models in accession 211257, came to the Smithsonian from MIT in 1956.
- References:
- Grassmann, H., “Neue Theorie der Electrodynamik,” Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 1845, vol. 140, pp. 1-18.
- Baker, R.P., Mathematical Models, Iowa City, 1931, p. 18.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Frances E. Baker
- ca 1906-1935
- ID Number
- MA.211257.049
- accession number
- 211257
- catalog number
- 211257.049
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- red (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- soldered (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: .1 cm x 15.6 cm x 15.6 cm; 1/32 in x 6 5/32 in x 6 5/32 in
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1083014
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-3075-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
