Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Subgroup Icosahedra
date: label: date made
content: 1935 07 31
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The underlying structure of this cut, folded and glued paper model is a regular octahedron. On each of the eight faces are nine sides of a faceted fgure with three quadrilaterals facing inward and six quadrilaterals around these. Three triangles show on each face of the underlying octahedron, making for a total of 9(8) + 3(8) or 96 faces. A paper tag reads: IS 8. Another mark reads: Icosahedron (/) July 31 (/) 1935. Another mark reads: 490 IS 8. Wheeler classified this model in his "subgroup icosahedra."
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.304723.247
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.247
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
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: 7.9 cm x 9 cm x 9 cm; 3 1/8 in x 3 17/32 in x 3 17/32 in