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LicenseThree columns of three Klein bottles interconnected
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Three columns of three Klein bottles interconnected
Science Museum Group Collection
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Three columns of three Klein bottles interconnected, which when cut form three pairs of single-twist Mobius strips, one of each pair being separate, the other of each pair being interconnected
A single surface glass vessel made by Alan Bennett in Bedford, 1995. It consists of three columns of three Klein bottles interconnected, which when cut form three pairs of single-twist Mobuis strips, one of each pair being seperate, the other of each pair being interconnected. 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:
- 1996-542
- Materials:
- glass
- Measurements:
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overall: 135 mm x 145 mm x 130 mm, 0.324 kg
- type:
- single surface model
- credit:
- Bennett, Alan
