Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Stymmetrical Icosahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1934 03 24
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This cut and glued white paper model has a three-sided irregular pyramid attached to each of the twelve pentagonal sides of a regular dodecahedron. The small triangular face of each pyramid is in the same plane as an adjacent pentagon. The two larger faces of each pyramid are in the same plane as two larger faces of other pyramids, making for an addition (12) (2) /3 or eight faces. Perhaps for this reason, Wheeler considered the model an icosahedron. A mark in pencil on the model reads: No. 411. Another pendil mark reads: Symmetrical (/) Icosahedron (/) II Species (/) March 24 (/) 1934 .
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.304723.241
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.241
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7.5 cm x 8.5 cm x 9 cm; 2 15/16 in x 3 11/32 in x 3 17/32 in