Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Pentagonal Trapezoidal Dodecahedron
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This cut and folded tan paper model represents the union of two polyhedra. One is formed from two star pyramids facing opposite directions that have a common pentragram as base. The second, smaller, polyhedron has regular pentagons for top and bottom and ten trapezoids for sides. A typed paper tag reads: DT 4. A faint mark in pencil reads: 290 (/) DT4.
label: Description
content: Two models from Wheeler, MA.304723.592 and 1979.0102.136, have tags that read DT 4. However, they are not identical.
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.304723.592
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.592
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: 7.5 cm x 15.5 cm x 12.5 cm; 2 15/16 in x 6 3/32 in x 4 29/32 in