Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Irregular Octahedron (Portion of a Dissected Polyhedron)
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This plastic model has two green and two white triangular faces on one side. On the other side, it has 2 trapezoidal faces, one yellow and one black, joined along the top edge. It also has 2 triangular faces, one turquoise and one blue. This is part of model 771, what Wheeler describes as a "rhombic dodecahedron transformed inoto a regular pentagonal dodecahedron and an eight-pointed star dodecahedron." Six models like this one may be arranged to form a regular pentagonal dodecahedron. Such pieces are 1979.0102.317, 1979.0102.318, 1979.0102.336, 1979.0102.337, 1979.0102.338, and 1979.0102.339. The eight-pointed dodecahedron is 1979.0102.340.
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louise D. Campbell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0102.338
label: accession number
content: 1979.0102
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0102.338
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6.2 cm x 4.5 cm x 4.5 cm; 2 7/16 in x 1 25/32 in x 1 25/32 in