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Klein bottle with three inlet tubes which when cut produce three pairs of single -twist Mobius strips
A single surface glass vessel made by Alan Bennett in Bedford, 1995. It consists of three Klein bottles sharing an inlet tube which when cut produces three pairs of single-twist Mobius strips. A Klein bottle is a surface which has no edges, no outside or inside and cannot be properly constructed in three dimensions.
Details
- Category:
- Mathematics
- Object Number:
- 1996-537
- Materials:
- glass
- Measurements:
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overall: 90 mm 125 mm, 0.07 kg
- type:
- single surface model
- credit:
- Bennett, Alan
