Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Cuboctahedron
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The faces of this Archimedean solid are eight congruent equilateral triangles and six congruent squares. The white plastic model has no maker’s marks. This was Wheeler’s model number 13 and model VIII of his Archimedean solids.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 25.
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.304723.698
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.698
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: 3 cm x 4.3 cm x 4.3 cm; 1 3/16 in x 1 11/16 in x 1 11/16 in