Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, One-Sided Polyhedron?
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This clear plastic cut and glued model has six points, wth eight rectangles around each point.. A typed paper tag reads: M4. Another mark reads: 645. A series of equations reads: e=24 (/) k=36 (/)f=18 (/) e-k+f=6.Compare MA.304723.364, which also is a six-pointed star with eight triangles around each point. It has numbers M5 and 646. In his list of models, Wheeler referred to both models as having eight points.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: A.H. Wheeler, <I>Catalog of Models</I>, A. H. Wheeler Papers, Mathematics Collections, National Museum of American History.
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.304723.367
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.367
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 12 cm x 13 cm x 13 cm; 4 23/32 in x 5 1/8 in x 5 1/8 in