Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, One-Sided Polyhedron
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This colorful plastic model has twelve triangular pieces on each of four sides, for a total of forty-eight pieces. Many of these pieces are coplanar with other pieces. Wheeler described it as a “one-sided polyhedron derived from the regular tetrahedron by passing planes through the edges perpendicular to the opposite edges.” A mark on the model reads: 687. Wheeler also considered it model M72 in his series of models of one-sided polyhedra.
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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.304723.388
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.388
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pink (overall color)
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content: green, dark (overall color)
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content: brown (overall color)
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content: white (overall color)
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content: green, light (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: pink, speckled (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: orange (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 5.9 cm x 7.7 cm x 7.4 cm; 2 5/16 in x 3 1/32 in x 2 29/32 in