Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler,Polyhedron
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This hollow cut and folded model has four celluloid pieces in the shape of hexagons and, opposite each of these hexagons, holes in the shape of hexagons. The remaining eight pieces are of paper. Each of these is a double figure which has a total of twenty-four triangular and six quadrilateral faces.
label: Description
content: A typed paper tag on the model teads: IS 9. Another mark reads; 497 (/) IS (9). Hence Wheeler considered the figure as developed from the icosahedron.
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.304723.254
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.254
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: transparent (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 8 cm x 9.2 cm x 9.2 cm; 3 5/32 in x 3 5/8 in x 3 5/8 in