Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Compound of Ten Tetrahedra
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: Wheeler made several models of intersecting polyhedra, including this white plastic cut and glued model showing the union of ten tetrahedra.
label: Description
content: A mark reads: 396 (/) Ic (/) 10T
label: Description
content: Compare MA.304723.119, MA.304723.223 and MA.304723.229. For a different compound of ten tetrahedra, see MA.304723.108.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 45.
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.304723.229
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.229
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 11 cm x 12.8 cm x 13.5 cm; 4 11/32 in x 5 1/32 in x 5 5/16 in