Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, One-Sided Polyhedron
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This plastic model is inscriptible in a regular tetrahedron. It has six turquoise rectangular pieces, each of which is coplanar with four small triangles of the same color (two on one side of the rectangle and two on the other).The small triangles form facets near the vertices of the (imaginary) inscribing tetrahedron. It also has four white faces, each consisting of four coplanar equilateral triangles. A mark on the model reads: 659. Wheeler also gave this model the designation M18.
label: Description
content: Compare MA.304723.372 and MA.304723.381.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: A.H. Wheeler, <I>Catalog of Models</I>, A. H. Wheeler Papers, Mathematics Collections, National Museum of American History
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.304723.372
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.372
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: light blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 10.8 cm x 13 cm x 12 cm; 4 1/4 in x 5 1/8 in x 4 23/32 in