Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Compound of Cube and Octahedron, Tetrakaidekahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1932 07 27
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This cut and folded tan paper model represents the union of a cube and a regular octahedron. The six faces of the cube and portions of the eight faces of the octahdeon can be seen as forming a fourteen-faced polyhedron. A mark on the model reads: Intersecting Cube (/) and Octahedron (/) Tetrakaidekahedron (/) July 27, '32. A typed paper tag reads: RS 17. Another mark reads: 9 /23 (/) RS17.
label: Description
content: For related but not identical models, see 1979.0102.053 and 1979.0102.171.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
label: associated place
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.304723.069
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.069
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 cm x 7 cm x 7 cm; 2 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in