Sheets and Patterns Relating to the Geometric Models of A. Harry Wheeler
date: label: date made
content: 1944-1945
name: label: unspecified
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: These materials include:
label: Description
content: 1. a sheet of drawings and patterns relating to orthogonally intersecting icosahedron and dodecahedron. A mark reads; Orthogonall [sic] Intersecting (/) Icosahedron and Dodecahedron (/) Ic-D2. Another mark reads; Oct 13-1944 (/) Wellesley My 1945. Pattern pieces are in both metal and paper.
label: Description
content: 2. a sheet with a drawing. A mark reads: Complete Icosahedron. Another mark reads: Sept 29-1944
label: Description
content: 3. one sheet on polyhedral inscribed in polyhedra, dated November 7, 1944.
label: Description
content: 4. two sheets of patterns. The first is labeled: SPHERICAL RTIANGLES (/) And LUNES (/) ST-LU (/) MODEL STAND. It is dated: Feb 6-1945.The second is labeled: SPEHERICAL ANGLES (/) and LUNES. It is dated Feb 5-1945.
label: Description
content: 5. one sheet with four pattern pieces and a drawing for a model. A label reads: MEASUREMENT (/) OF A (/) SPHERICAL ANGLE (/) MODEL STAND (/) MSA. A date reads: Feb 6-1945.
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content: 6. a sheet with pattern pieces and a drawing. A typed label reads: Hexahedron (/) With Inscribed (/) Tetrahedron (/) H2-TI. Another mark reads: Oct 1944.
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content: 7. Five sheets relating to a model of a prismatoid. The first, the fourth, and the fifth each have drawing and a typed label that reads: PRISMATOID (/) PMT. The first also has the date: March-24-1945. It also is labeled: Upper Base. The second drawing is labeled: Lower Base. The third sheet has twelve pattern pieces attached to it. The fourth drawing has the date: March 24-1945. The Fifth sheet has the date: March-24-1945.
label: Description
content: Items 1979.3002.56 through 1979.3002.71 were removed from the same box.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Rhode Island, Providence
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louise D. Campbell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.3002.057
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3002.057
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheets and Patterns
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 27 cm x 37.5 cm x 1.5 cm; 10 5/8 in x 14 3/4 in x 19/32 in