Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Cuboctahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1931 10 30
name: label: patentee
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The faces of this Archimedean solid are eight congruent equilateral triangles and six congruent squares. A mark on the model reads: 013. Another mark reads: VIII (/) A. Harry Wheeler (/) Oct. 30, 1931 (/) Pat. 1292188. This was Wheeler’s model number 13 and model VIII of his Archimedean solids.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 25.
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.304723.449
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.449
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: 7.6 cm x 7.6 cm x 7.6 cm; 3 in x 3 in x 3 in