Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Portion of an Irregular Polyhedron
date: label: date made
content: 1934 09 24
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: In this cut, glued and folded paper model A. H. Wheeler explored fitting together polygons. At the center is a ring of five congruent irregular quadrilaterals, each labeled “7”. These meet at a central point. The vertex of each quadrilateral that is opposite this point meets a hexahedron. Five of the upper sides of these congruent hexahedra is marked: 12 [one has no mark]. Four of the hexahedra also each have an outer triangular side marked: 12 [one has no mark]. The two ends of the hexahedra are two smaller triangles marked “10” and “10’”. Below the five sides marked seven are three irregular pentagons which each meet two additional congruent pentagons. In one group of these, the centers of the irregular pentagons are marked 3 and protruding small triangles are marked 6’. A further group of five quadrilaterals marked 7 is attached to two of the groups of irregular pentagons.
label: Description
content: A mark on the model, which reflects the numbering of the polygons, reads: 366’1010’12 (/) Sept 26 (/) 1934. Another mark reads: 366’710’12 (/) New (/) AHW NEW.
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.304723.694
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.694
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: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 3.8 cm x 9.2 cm x 6.2 cm; 1 1/2 in x 3 5/8 in x 2 7/16 in