Geometric Model, Rhombitruncated Cuboctahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1990s
name: label: maker
content: Benson, Harold Walter
notes: label: Description
content: This wooden model has regular polygons for its faces - six octagons (eight-sided polygons), eight hexagons (six-sided polygons), and twelve squares. In the twentieth century, mathematicians counted and constructed all of the surfaces whose faces are regular polygons, including this one. One can obtain the surface by carefully cutting off, or truncating, the vertices of another polyhedron called cuboctahedron. Hence the surface is also known as a truncated cuboctahedron.
label: Description
content: Harold Walter Benson, a machinist from Chicago, made this model in the 1990s, when he was retired and living in South Carolina.
label: Description
content: Compare to 1978.1065.015.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: M. J. Wenninger, <I> Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971, p. 29.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: South Carolina, Clemson
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 Katherine B. Benson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1999.0130.06
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0130.06
label: accession number
content: 1999.0130
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 cm x 9 cm x 9 cm; 3 17/32 in x 3 17/32 in x 3 17/32 in