Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Tetrakaidekahedron Third Species
date: label: date made
content: 1932 07 12
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This cut and folded tan paper model has the general appearance of a cube with a cross-shapped structure on each of its faces. Looking at it more carefully, one finds that each square face of the cube is augmented by four small rectangles in the same plane, one at each vertex. One faceted equilateral triangle interesects each of the eight vertices of the cube. Hence, as the model has fourteen faces, Wheeler considered it a form of tetrakaidekahedron.
label: Description
content: A mark on the model reads: TETRAKAIDEKAHEDRON (/) THIRD SPECIES (/) JULY-12-1932. Another mark reads: RS 19. Another mark reads: 9 (/) 25.
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.304723.071
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.071
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: 7.5 cm x 7.5 cm x 7.5 cm; 2 15/16 in x 2 15/16 in x 2 15/16 in