Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Pentagonal Dodecahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1934 03 24
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This tan cut and glued paper model has sixty faces - twenty-four triangles, twenty-four quadrilaterals, and twelve irregular pentagons. The underlying structure is a pentagonal dodecahedron, whose faces are equal irregular penatgons. On each of these pentagons a figure is erected with two triangular, two quadrilateral, and one pentagonal face.
label: Description
content: A tag on the model reads: 332. A mark in pencil reads: 3-24-34 (/) No. 332. Another mark in pencil reads: Symmetrical (/) Pentagonal (/) Dodecahedron (/) Second (/) Species. Another mark in pencil reads: Nonagonal (/) Dodecahedron.
label: Description
content: Wheeler considered this to be the ninth in a series of models he called "Evolution of the Ppentagonal Dodecahedron." He also numbered it in his catalog D16 and called it a "Long Base Pentagonal Dodecahedron.".
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: A.H. Wheeler, <I>Catalog of Models</I>, A. H. Wheeler Papers, Mathematics Collections, National Museum of American History.
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
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: 1979.0102.083
label: accession number
content: 1979.0102
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0102.083
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.5 cm x 8.5 cm x 8.5 cm; 3 11/32 in x 3 11/32 in x 3 11/32 in