Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Cube Transformable Into Two Snub Octahedra, Dissected Polyhedron
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This paper model of a cube is dissected into sixteen identical irregular octahedra. The octahedra are hinged together in groups of eight - one group is painted turquoise. The pieces may be arranged to form two snub octahedra (14-sided figures that Wheeler called tetrakaidecahedra) or a cube.
label: Description
content: Compare MA.304723.300, MA.304723.323 and MA.304723.476.
label: Description
content: There is a drawing entitled "Cube Separabled into two Tetrakaidekahedra" and dated March 1, 1930 in 1979.3002.40.
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: Dissected Polyhedra
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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.304723.476
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.476
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: turquiose (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7.7 cm x 7.7 cm x 7.7 cm; 3 1/32 in x 3 1/32 in x 3 1/32 in