Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Tetrahedral Pentagonal Dodecahedron
date: label: date made
content: ca 1936
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This colorful plastic model has twelve irregular pentagons as faces. Wheeler called it a "Tetrahedral Pentagonal Dodecahedron." It is marked: 187.
label: Description
content: Compare MA.304723.148, which has the same Wheeler number, and MA.304723.150, which is not identical but is also plastic and similar.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
label: See more items in
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.304723.150
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.150
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7 cm x 7.5 cm x 7 cm; 2 3/4 in x 2 15/16 in x 2 3/4 in