Geometric Model, Rhombicosidodecahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1990s
name: label: maker
content: Benson, Harold Walter
notes: label: Description
content: This wooden model has regular polygons for its faces - twelve pentagons, thirty squares, and twenty equilateral triangles. Only the edges are shown.
label: Description
content: Harold Walter Benson, a machinist from Chicago, made the surface in the 1990s, when he was retired and living in South Carolina..
label: Description
content: Compare 1999.0130.09 and 1999.0130.10.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: M. J. Wenninger, <I> Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971, p. 28.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: South Carolina, Clemson
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 Katherine B. Benson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0130.12
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0130.12
label: accession number
content: 1999.0130
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 cm x 24.25 cm x 23.5 cm; 9 7/16 in x 9 9/16 in x 9 1/4 in