Notebook with Examples and Photographs of Geometric Models
date: label: date made
content: ca 1926
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This small ring-bound notebook contains example of Wheeler’s collapsible models as well as photographs of several other models. Included are:
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content: 1. Undated model of Wheeler’s number 282, a collapsible regular hexagonal prism.
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content: 2. Model dated November, 1926, of a collapsible frustum of a hexagonal prism. This has Wheeler’s number 284.
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content: 3. Model dated November, 1926, for a collapsible frustum of a hexagonal pyramid. This has Wheeler’s number 285. The paper label is loose.
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content: 4. Undated model for a collapsible octahedron. This has Wheeler’s number 139. The paper label is loose.
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content: 5. Undated model of a collapsible cube, numbered 137.
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content: 6. Undated model of a collapsible rhombihedron, numbered 286.
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content: 7. Undated model for a collapsible parallelepiped, numbered 138.
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content: 8. Two photographs, one off a regular icosahedron and the other of a regular dodecahedron
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content: 9. Three photographs numbered I, IV, and VI, respectively, of a truncated tetrahedron, a truncated octahedron, and a truncated icosahedron.
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content: 10. Two photographs, one numbered XII 92Fand VII 26F, the other numbered XIII 26F, showing a snub docedahedron and rhombicubocatahedron, and a rhombitruncated cubocatahedron respectively.
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content: 11. A photograph with model numbered XIV – 62F – 30(4) + 20 (6) + 12 (10), showing a rhombitruncated icosidodecahedron.
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content: 12. One photograph with a model numbered XV 62F and another model numbered II 14F 6(8) 8 (3). The first of these is a rhombicosadodecahedron, the second a truncated cube. A second photograph on the same page is labeled VIII 14F 6(4) + 8(3). It shows a cuboctahedron.
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content: 13. One photograph showing two polyhedra.
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content: 14. Two photographs showing polyhedra.
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content: 15. Two photographs showing six collapsible models (three in each photograph).
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content: 16. Two photographs showing collapsible models (two in one photograph, a third in the other).
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content: 17. A photograph showing a collapsible double cone and a collapsible hyperboloid of one sheet.
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content: 18. A photograph showing a collapsible torus and a collapsible hyperboloid of one sheet. A second photograph showing two hyperboloids of one sheet.
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content: 19. Photograph showing a stellated polyhedron.
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content: 20. Photograph showing a great dodecahedron.
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content: 21. Photograph showing a stellated dodecahedron.
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content: 22. Two photographs of stellated polyhedra.
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content: 23. Photograph of a stellated polyhedron.
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content: 24. Photograph of a stellated polyhedron.
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content: 25. Two photographs of stellated polyhedra.
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content: 26. Photograph of a stellated polyhedron.
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content: 27. Photograph of a stellated polyhedron.
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content: 28. Photograph of a stellated polyhedron
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content: 29. Example of model 278 (two parallel planes cut by a third plane).
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content: 30. Example of model 279 (two parallel planes cut by a third plane).
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content: A loose sheet stored with this notebook gives bibliographical information about H.S.M. Coxeter's <I>The Fifty-nine Icosahedra</I>.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louise D. Campbell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.3002.116
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content: 1979.3002.116
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Notebook
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: plastic (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: brown (overall color)
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content: tan (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm; 2 3/4 in x 5 1/8 in x 25/32 in