Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Great Rhombicuboctahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1931 10 31
name: label: patentee
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: The Archimedean solids are polyhedra with regular polygons for sides and edges of equal length. For example, this 26-faced model has twelve square sides, eight hexagonal sides, and six octagonal sides. The surface is called a truncated cuboctahedron, a rhombitruncated cuboctahedron, or a great rhombicuboctahedron.
label: Description
content: Archimedean solids were known to the Hellenistic Greek mathematician Archimedes and studied by the 17th-century mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler. This particular example was made from cut and folded paper. A tag on it reads: 18. Another mark reads: 18. XIII (/) A. Harry Wheeler (/) Oct. 31, 1931 (/) Pat. 1292188. It is number 18 in Wheeler’s listing of models.
label: Description
content: For other examples of models of this surface, see MA.304723.063 (plastic) and MA.304723.065 (balsa wood).
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content: References:
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content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 29.
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
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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.304723.064
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.064
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: 9 cm x 9 cm x 9 cm; 3 17/32 in x 3 17/32 in x 3 17/32 in