Sheets and Patterns Relating to the Work of A. Harry Wheeler - Tetrakaidecahedron, Stella Octangula
date: label: date made
content: 1944-1945
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: One sheet has a pattern for a tetrakaidekahedron with pieces in both metal and paper It is inscriptible in a rhombic dodecahedron, and there also are pattern pieces for it. A date reads: Oct 1944. Three pieces on lined paper also are clipped to the sheet.
label: Description
content: A second sheet has a pattern for a stella octangula, with Whee;er's designation 2T2. Further marks read: Feb 10-1945; (/) Marjorie, Mar. 45 (/) Red and black. A sheet of lined paper with a drawing and a square with an equilateral triangle cut out of it also are included.
label: Description
content: Items 1979.3002.56 through 1979.3002.71 were removed from the same box.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1979.3002.070
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3002.070
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheets and Patterns
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 24.5 cm x 37.5 cm x 1 cm; 9 21/32 in x 14 3/4 in x 13/32 in