Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Wedge Icosahedron Cut by Planes of a Regular Icosahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1919 05 02
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This cut and folded tan paper model has sixty quadrilateral faces and sixty triangular faces. Wheeler listed it as a "Wedge Icosahedron cut by planes of a Regular Icosahedron." He classified it among the icosahedra. What Wheeler called a wedge icosahedron is also known as the third stellation of the icosahedron. A mark on the model reads: May 2 1919 (/) No. 378. Another mark reads: 378.
label: Description
content: Compare to the compound of ten tetrahedra shown in Wenninger. It does not seem to be identical.
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content: References:
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content: A. H. Wheeler, "List of Models," Mathematics Collections, Non-accession number 1979.3002.83, NMAH.
label: Description
content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 45.
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.304723.198
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.198
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: tan (overall color)
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content: cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 18.5 cm x 19.5 cm x 15 cm; 7 9/32 in x 7 11/16 in x 5 29/32 in