{"id":1284,"date":"2014-03-28T09:23:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T09:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2014-03-28T13:30:59","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T13:30:59","slug":"march-2014-guessing-game-final-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2014\/03\/28\/march-2014-guessing-game-final-part\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2014 Guessing Game, pt. 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you taken a close look at the objects from the museum\u2019s collection that have been posted over the last three weeks?\u00a0 If not, check them out!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1243\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1243\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"March 2014 Guessing Game, pt. 1\" href=\"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2014\/03\/07\/march-2014-guessing-game-pt-1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1243\" alt=\"A toy car designed to look like an old van. The car advertises Polk's Hobbies at 314 5th Ave New York, New York.\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/03\/polkhobbiesvan1-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/03\/polkhobbiesvan1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/03\/polkhobbiesvan1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1243\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Object 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1270\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"March 2014 Guessing Game, pt. 2\" href=\"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2014\/03\/14\/march-guessing-game-pt-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1270\" alt=\"A wooden Control Line Handle sold by Ace Model Airplane Co. located at 3149 Shenandoah Street St. Louis was originally sold for 25 cents.\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/03\/AceModelCLhandle_2-300x138.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/03\/AceModelCLhandle_2-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/03\/AceModelCLhandle_2.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Object 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1279\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1279\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"March 2014 Guessing Game, pt. 3\" href=\"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2014\/03\/21\/march-2014-guessing-game-pt-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1279\" alt=\"The cover of the March 14, 1914 issue of Aero and Hydro. The cover image shows \u201cFirm Believers in Trans-Atlantic Aviation\u201d Lieut. J.C. Porte and G.H. Curtiss.\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/03\/AeroHydroMarch141914cover-227x300.jpg\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/03\/AeroHydroMarch141914cover-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/03\/AeroHydroMarch141914cover.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Object 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What do they have in common?\u00a0 Herb noted that \u201c314\u201d was in the address for both the Polk\u2019s Hobbies Van and the Control Line handle sold through Ace Model Airplane Co.\u00a0 That\u2019s correct.\u00a0 Good job, Herb!\u00a0 Feel free to brag about the fact that you&#8217;re our winner!<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c314\u201d is what connects those objects to the <em>Aero and Hydro<\/em> article, which was originally published on March 14, 1914 \u2013 or 3\/14\/14.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers 3-1-4, in that order, are the common trait that all three items share.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.com\/tables\/constants\/pi.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1310 alignleft\" alt=\"The mathematical number Pi.\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI.jpg\" width=\"143\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a>The 3-1-4 is also a common trait of this month, March 2014 or 3\/14.\u00a0 Which just happens to be the first digits of the mathematical number <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.com\/tables\/constants\/pi.htm\">Pi<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 So even though \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.piday.org\/\">Pi Day<\/a>\u201d is over, celebrate the fact that it is still Pi <em>Month<\/em>, and go out and have a piece of pie!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And, just because, this is the cover of the issue of <i>Aero and Hydro<\/i> that was published 100 years ago today.\u00a0 The main article focuses on seaplanes; the picture on the cover is captioned, \u201cAero-Boating by Moonlight at Palm Beach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/03\/AeroHydroMarch281914cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1285\" alt=\"AeroHydroMarch281914cover\" src=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/03\/AeroHydroMarch281914cover-230x300.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/03\/AeroHydroMarch281914cover-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/amablog-modelaircraft-org.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/03\/AeroHydroMarch281914cover.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>National Model Aviation Museum Library, <em>Aero and Hydro<\/em>, <em>America\u2019s Aviation Weekly<\/em>, vol. VII, no. 26, March 28, 1914.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you taken a close look at the objects from the museum\u2019s collection that have been posted over the last three weeks?\u00a0 If not, check them out! What do they have in common?\u00a0 Herb noted that \u201c314\u201d was in the address for both the Polk\u2019s Hobbies Van and the Control [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,126,45,47,107,1],"tags":[56,127,128,109],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-control-line-2","category-game-time","category-library","category-museum","category-old-magazines","category-uncategorized","tag-artifact","tag-game-time-2","tag-march-2014-guessing-game","tag-old-magazines-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1324,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}