Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Portion of an Icosahedron
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: A few incomplete models of A. H. Wheeler reveal his intricate techniques of cutting, folding, and gluing surfaces together. This is one of them. The paper model consists of five sections of a faceted regular pentagon. Each triangle of each facet is in turn cut away by a four-sided indentation at the vertex nearest the inside of the model. Looking on the inside of the model reveals an intricate system of paper joints and glue spots.
label: Description
content: A paper tag on the model reads: 383. Another mark reads: 466’19’12 (/) No. 383.
label: Description
content: Wheeler listed this model in his catalog among the icosahedra and gave it the additional number: I22.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: A. H. Wheeler, "List of Models," Mathematics Collections, Non-accession number 1979.3002.83, NMAH.
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.304723.605
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.605
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: cu, folded, and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 5 cm x 16 cm x 13 cm; 1 31/32 in x 6 5/16 in x 5 1/8 in