Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, One-Sided Polyhedron
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: .This plastic model is inscriptible in a regular tetrahedron. It has six rectangular pieces, each of which is coplanar with four small triangles of the same color. It also has four pink pieces in the shape of an equilateral triangle with a triangular hole cut out of the center. Finally, four blue-green triangles are near the vertices of what would be an inscribing tetrahedron. A tag on the model reads: 660. A mark on the model also reads: 660.
label: Description
content: The figures at the four corners of the model are in roughly the shape of faceted octahedra, and Wheeler referred to it as an “octahedral” polyhedron.
label: Description
content: Compare MA.304723.372 and MA.304723.381
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: A.H. Wheeler, <I>Catalog of Models</I>, A. H. Wheeler Papers, Mathematics Collections, National Museum of American History.
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.304723.381
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.381
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: pink (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: turquoise (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue, light (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 11 cm x 12.2 cm x 11.5 cm; 4 11/32 in x 4 13/16 in x 4 17/32 in