Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Tetrakaidecahedron Sixth Species
date: label: date made
content: 1932 07 27
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This cut and folded tan paper model can be seen as a small cube intersecting a stellar octungula. Wheeler described it as a higher form of the truncated octahedron. He assigned it number 26 generally and number 20 among the regular solids.
label: Description
content: A pencil mark on the model reads: 9 / 26. Another pencil mark reads: RS20; Another pencil mark reads: Intersecting Cube (/) and Stella Octangula [/] Tetrakaidekahedron [/] [. . . ] [/] Species [/] July 27-32.
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: 1979.0102.296
label: accession number
content: 1979.0102
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0102.296
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10.9 cm x 7.7 cm x 7.7 cm; 4 9/32 in x 3 1/32 in x 3 1/32 in