Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Short Base Icosahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1934 06 22
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: Wheeler called this cut and glued tan paper model a short base icosahedron, second species. The underlying structure is that of twelve irregular pentagons. On each of these pentagons, identical five-faced figures have been erected. In each of these, two triangular faces and two quadrilateral faces meet at a point. A final, smaller triangle is formed by the shortest side of the underlying pentagon and the shortest sides of the quadrilaterals. Hende the model ohas a total of sixty faces, twnty-four quadrilaterals and thirty-six triangles.
label: Description
content: A paper tag on the model reads: 335. Another mark reads: Short Base (/) Icosohedron (/) II (/) Species; 6-22-34 (/) No. 335.
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.304723.193
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.193
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 5.5 cm x 6 cm x 6.5 cm; 2 5/32 in x 2 3/8 in x 2 9/16 in