Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Truncated Dodecahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1931 11 06
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The faces of this Archimedean solid are twenty small equilateral triangles and twelve regular decagons. A paper tag reads: 8. A mark in ink reads: III (/) A. Harry Wheeler (/) Nov. 6, 1931 (/) Pat. 1292188. This was Wheeler’s model 8 and model III of his Archimedean solids.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 24.
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.304723.444
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.444
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: cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 12 cm x 14 cm x 15.5 cm; 4 23/32 in x 5 1/2 in x 6 3/32 in