Model of a cylindroid, 1895-1900

Made:
1895-1900 in Republic of Ireland and Dublin
maker:
Howard Grubb
Wire model of Cayley's 'cylindroid' by Grubb Wire model of Cayley's 'cylindroid' by Grubb Wire model of Cayley's 'cylindroid' by Grubb

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Wire model of Cayley's 'cylindroid' by Grubb
Science Museum Group Collection
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Wire model of Cayley's 'cylindroid' by Grubb
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Wire model of Cayley's 'cylindroid' by Grubb
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Wire model of Cayley's 'cylindroid' by Grubb, Dublin in brass glazed cylindrical case on wooden base

Wire model of a 'cylindroid' by Howard Grubb, Dublin in brass glazed cylindrical case on a wooden base. The model was made on the instructions of Robert Stawell Ball who wrote the definitive work 'A treatise on the Theory of Screws' in 1900. Thomas Grubb, and later his son Howard, ran a firm of telescope makers in Dublin from the 1830s until the 1920s.

Details

Category:
Mathematics
Object Number:
1997-1868
Materials:
wire, steel, case, brass, glass and stand, mahogany
Measurements:
overall: 270 mm x 280 mm x 145 mm, 3.068 kg
type:
surface model (wire)
credit:
Tesseract