Sheets and Patterns Relating to the Work of A. Harry Wheeler, Octahedra
date: label: date made
content: 1944-1945
name: label: unspecified
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This folder includes pattern pieces and drawings for a variety of geometric models of A. Harry Wheeler that relate to octahedra. The pattern pieces are in both paper and metal for each model. The models are:
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content: 1. orthganally intersecting octahedron and hexahedron O5-H. A mark reads: Sept 23-1946 (/) Marjorie Mar. 45 (/) Blue and White.
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content: 2. octahedron with inscribed icosahedron O5-Ici. A merk reads: Oct 19-1944. In two sizes. Larger size is marked: Wellesley (/) May 1945. A paper strip with drawing is also attached.
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content: 3, octahedron with inscribed stella octangula - O5-2Ti.. A mark reads: Oct 31, 1944. Attached are a drawing and extra pattern piece.
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content: 4. octahedron with inscribed tetrahedra, vertex to face - O5-Ti. A mark reads: Nov-1-1944. Attached drawing and two further pattern pieces.
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content: 5. octahedron with hexhedron inscribed vertex-to-face-wise, O5-Him. A further mark reads: Minimum Hexahedron (/) Inscribed vertex to (/) Mid-Points of Faces (/) of Octahedron (/) O5-Him. A further mark reads: Oct 1944. A further mark reads: Wellesley May 1945. There are two paper slips in addition to pattern pieces.
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content: 6.octahedron with inscribed hexahedron vertex to edge, O5-Hive. A further mark reads: Oct 1944 (/) Wellesley May 1945. Two paper slips are attached, in addition to pattern pieces.
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content: 7. octahedron with inscribed octahedron, O5-Oiv, small size, vertex to face. Threr are extensive notes and extra paper pattern pieces. A mark reads: Nov 8 - 1944.
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content: 8. octahedron with insccribed octahedron, standard size vertex to face, O6-Oiv. A mark reads: Nov 4, 1944. There are extra sheets and notes.
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content: 9. octahedron with inscribed icosahedron, O6-Ici. A mark reads: Sheet For (/) Large Size. Another mark reads: Oct 29 - 1944. With the patterns is a sheet of drawings.
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content: 10. five intersecting octahedra inscriptible in a regular dodecahedron, 50. Another mark reads: July 30-1944.The pattern pieces also are marked with the number: 50..
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content: 11. hexagonal section of an octahedron, O5 Hex Sec. Also marked: Wellesley May 1945. There is one loose drawing as well as pattern pieces.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Wellesley
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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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: 1979.3002.085
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3002.085
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheets and Patterns
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: tan (overall color)
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content: gold (overall color)
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content: silver (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 24 cm x 33 cm x 3 cm; 9 7/16 in x 13 in x 1 3/16 in