Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Irregular Icosahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1935 07 21
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This small model is made from tan paper and transparent greenish plastic. It has the symmetry of a regular octahedron with an equilateral triangle cut out of each face. Thus it has eight faces that are triangles with holes cut out of them - six of these faces are civered with clear plastic. At each vertex of the octagonal form, there are two additional triangles on the inside, creating an additional twelve faces.
label: Description
content: A paper tag reads: IS 3. A mark in pencil reads: 483. A faint mark in pencel reads: Icosahedron (/) July-21-35.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louise D. Campbell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0102.101
label: accession number
content: 1979.0102
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0102.101
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 7.5 cm x 5.5 cm x 5.5 cm; 2 15/16 in x 2 5/32 in x 2 5/32 in