streamline geometrical shapes
Date: 1900-1940
Inventory Number: 2007-1-0035
Classification: Demonstration Model
Subject:
Maker: American
Cultural Region:
Dimensions:
3.1 x 8 x 5.5 cm (1 1/4 x 3 1/8 x 2 3/16 in.)
Material:
mica,
Description:
Twelve pieces of mica in a small orange-cover box. The geometrical shapes are the ones commonly used to study the flow and resistance of fluids or air. Whether these were employed for water or air is unknown (though the former is more likely). They could also have been used for actual research of as lecture demonstration tools.
Signedunsigned
Inscribedon piece of cardboard, hand-written: Parts for / Stream-Line / Exp