Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Higher Form of an Archimedean Solid
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This cut and folded tan paper model has fourteen points. Six of these are four-sided pyramids with equilateral triangles as faces, and might be compared to vertices of a regular octahedron. The other eight points each have three faces in the form or irregular pentagons coming together at the points, as well as three other shorter faces in the form of equilateral triangles. Hence the model has forty-eight equilateral triangles and twenty-four irregular pentagons as sides. Many of the sides are coplanar.
label: Description
content: A paper tag reads: 31. Wheeler considered the model to be derived from of an Archimedean soilid.
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.304723.082
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.082
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: 14 cm x 14 cm x 14 cm; 5 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in