Sheets and Patterns Relating to the Work of A. Harry Wheeler
date: label: date made
content: 1945-1950
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The materials include:
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content: 1. a folder with drawings and patterns as follows:
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content: a.a twenty-pointed pentagonal dodecahedron inscribed in a cube - the first and third drawings associated with this are dated Feb 13, 1950. The second is dated Feb 12, 1950. The fourth is dated Dec 23-1947.
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content: b. drawings and sheets associated with model of a pentagonal dodecahedron inscriptible in a cube.. Several pages are dated: Dec 30, '45.
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content: c. manuscript notes and drawing associated with twenty-pointed pentagonal dodecahedron inscriptible in a cube. Some pages are dated to earlier in December of 1945.
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content: d. two relatively large drawings, one dated Dec16-1945 and the other Dec 27-1945
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content: e. drawing of a somewhat irregular pentagon labeled 6A and dated Dec. 14, 1945.
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content: f. manuscript sheets with illustrations - two pages on pentagonal dodecahedron, pattern piece and manuscript with drawings on regular twenty-pointed star dodecahedron - pattern piece doesn't look very regular! - December 3- 1945
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content: g. calculations related to star pentagon labeled Dec 1, 1945. Also labeled: PROOF
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content: h. printed diagrams of Fig.1, Fig.2, Fig. 3, and Fig 5 - dated Nov 14, 1945.
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content: i. pattern pieces and drawings for a model, labeled: Eight-faced Twenty-Pointed Star Dodecahedron (/) Third Species. Inscriptible in a Cube. Dates Dec. 8-1945 to Feb. 17-1948.
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content: 2. a tan folder with drawings relating to pentagonal dodecahedra dated Nov. 28-1945, Dec 25-1947, and Nov 11. 1945
label: Description
content: Numbers 1979.3002.72 thru 1979.3002.76 were originally from the same package.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
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: 1979.3002.072
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3002.072
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)
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content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 31 cm x 37.5 cm x 2 cm; 12 7/32 in x 14 3/4 in x 25/32 in