Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler,Six Congruent Cubes Inscriptible in a Cube
date: label: date made
content: 1938 07 19
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This cut and folded paper model has six square faces and eight groups of three equal triangles pointing inward to a common point. It is a form of a faceted cuboctahedron. Wheeler marked it: Six congruent cubes (/) Inscriptible in (/) a cube (/) July 19, 1938 (/) 110.
label: Description
content: Wenninger called it a cubohemioctahedron.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 120.
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.304723.131
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.131
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
label: Other Terms
content: Geometric Model; Cubes, Union of 6
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: 11.5 cm x 14 cm x 15 cm; 4 17/32 in x 5 1/2 in x 5 29/32 in