Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Union of Three Cubes
date: label: date made
content: ca 1935
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: Massachusetts high school teacher and model maker A. Harry Wheeler built several geometric models that represented the union of intersecting cubes, including this one. The plastic pieces of the model are cut and glued to represent sections of yellow, green, and turquoise cubes.
label: Description
content: The model has no maker’s mark, but corresponds to three other models numbered “95.” One of these was made by his student Lois M. Parker in April 1938—it is of balsa wood (see 1979.0102.040). A third version of the model is folded from paper and has only the model number on it (see 1979.0102.043). A fourth version of the model, also folded from paper, has notes in Wheeler’s hand indicating that the model is inscriptible in a cube, a rhombic dodecahedron, a tetrahedron, and an octahedron. These notes are dated 1931 and 1938.
label: Description
content: In Wheeler’s handwritten catalog of his models, this model is listed as 95 and also numbered H19, as it was based on a six-sided figure or hexahedron.
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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
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content: Mathematical Association of America Objects
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.304723.118
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.118
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 10.2 cm x 16 cm x 12 cm; 4 1/32 in x 6 5/16 in x 4 23/32 in