Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Cuboctahedron Third Species
date: label: date made
content: 1932 07 19
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This tan cut and folded paper model has 128 triangular faces. It shows what Wenninger calls the second stellation of the cubactahedron – Wheeler calls it the third species of the cuboctahedron. It can be described as a collection of twenty-four dipyramids added to a compound of a cube and a regular octahedron..
label: Description
content: A mark in ink on the model reads: Cuboctahedron /) (Third Species (/) A. Harry Wheeler (/) July-19, 1932. A mark in pencil on another face reads: 13 / 37 (/) RS29.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1974, p. 69.
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.304723.079
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.079
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: average spatial: 10.5 cm x 11 cm x 11 cm; 4 1/8 in x 4 11/32 in x 4 11/32 in