Geometric Model by Robert Curtis, a Student of A. Harry Wheeler, One-Sided Polyhedron
date: label: date made
content: 1938 10 22
name: label: teacher
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
label: maker
content: Curtis, Robert L.
notes: label: Description
content: This cut, folded, and glued paper model is in the general shape of a cuboctahedron. , However, all six of the triangular sides have been replaced by facets with three triangular sides. . A paper tag on the model reads: 664. Another mark reads: ROBERT CURTIS (/) OCT 22, 1938. Three small fragments exist that made up most of one side and part of two others.
label: Description
content: Wheeler described this model as a one sided polyhderon "derived from Archimedean Solid VII. Bruckner page 132. He also assigned it his number M23.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: A. H. Wheeler, , "List of Models," Mathematics Collections, Non-accession number 1979.3002.83, NMAH.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.304723.385
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.385
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
label: Other Terms
content: Geometric Model; One-Sided Polyhedron
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 14.3 cm x 22.5 cm x 22.5 cm; 5 5/8 in x 8 27/32 in x 8 27/32 in