Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Icosidodecahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1938 11 04
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes enumerated the eighteen regular and semi-regular solids, and they are known as Archimedean solids in his honor.
label: Description
content: The faces of this tan cut and folded paper model are twelve regular pentagons and twenty equilateral triangles. A mark on the object reads: Harry Wheeler (/) Nov. 4, 1938 (/) Pat. 1292188 IX (/) 14.
label: Description
content: It is an Archimedean solid, number IX among Wheeler's Archimedean solids and number 14 in his general list of models.
label: Description
content: Compare MA.304723.058, MA.304723.436, MA.304723.448, and MA.304723.465.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 26.
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.304723.058
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.058
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: flattened: 11 cm x 15 cm x 15 cm; 4 11/32 in x 5 29/32 in x 5 29/32 in