Three interlacing sheets of red, blue and yellow wool, in a cylinder shape

Made:: 1912-1914 in Edinburgh

maker:: Alexander Crum Brown

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Three interlacing sheets of red, blue and yellow wool, in the shape of a locked cylinder, by Alexander Crum Brown, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1912-1914. Described in the Napier Tercentenary catalogue, as the smallest possible locked cylinder.

This model has the minimum number of perforations required to meet itself matched with the same colour when wrapped into a cylinder.

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Category:: Mathematics

Object Number:: 2006-59

Materials:: complete, wool

type:: model - representation

taxonomy:

visual and verbal communication

credit:: School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh

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