Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Thirteenth Stellation of the Icosahedron?
date: label: date made
content: 1928 08 10
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This cut and folded tan paper model has twelve long spikes, each surrounded by five shorter, hollow spikes at which three faces meet..Wenninger calls a very similar model the thirteenth stellation of the icosahedron. The model may be considered as the union of Wheeler's models 368 (the 12-pointed icosahedron) and 382 A mark on the model reads: 384.. A paper tag reads: I 25. Another mark reads: 356'89'10'. Another mark reads: Aug 10-1928.
label: Description
content: Compare 304723.221 and 304723.226.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p.60.
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.304723.221
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.221
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: 15.6 cm x 20 cm x 19 cm; 6 5/32 in x 7 7/8 in x 7 15/32 in