Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler or a Student, Dodecahedron and Icosahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1934 04 09
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The faces of this cut and folded tan paper model are twelve pentagrams (star-shaped figured) that would fit in plans of a regular dodecahedron and twenty equilateral triangles (the triangles are cut). a mark on the model reads: 476. Another mark reads: Donovan (/) 4/9/34.
label: Description
content: Compare MA.304723.270 and MA.304723.271.
label: Description
content: Wenninger calls it a small ditrigonal Icosidodecahedron.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 106
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.304723.271
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.271
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 folded (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7 cm x 9 cm x 9.5 cm; 2 3/4 in x 3 17/32 in x 3 3/4 in