Klein bottle, 1995.
- Made:
- 1995 in Greenfield
- maker:
- Alan Bennett Alan Bennett
Three Klein bottles set inside each other to produce when cut three pairs of single-twist Mobius strips.
This is one of a series of glass Klein bottles made by Alan Bennett in 1995 for the Science Museum, London. It consists of three Klein bottles, one inside another. A Klein bottle is a surface which has no edges, no outside or inside and cannot properly be constructed in three dimensions. In the series Alan Bennett made Klein bottles analogous to Mobius strips with odd numbers of twists greater than one.
Details
- Category:
- Mathematics
- Object Number:
- 1996-545
- Materials:
- glass
- Measurements:
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overall: 220 mm x 150 mm x 130 mm, 0.484 kg
- type:
- single surface model
- credit:
- Bennett, Alan