Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Polyhedra Inscribed in Regular Octahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1930-12-31
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: This model has a transparent plastic regular octahedron, with faces clipped together at the vertices, on the outside. Each of the eight faces has (or once had) six holes that contained beads. Threads passing through the beads form (or once formed) the outline of cubes inscribed in the octahedron - one red, one gold, one black, one green, one brown, and one turquoise. The model has no maker's mark.
label: Description
content: For related models, see drawings in 1979.3002.046
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.304723.740
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.740
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: turquoise (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: turquoise (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut, folded and sewn (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: cut, folded and sewn (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7.2 cm x 5.3 cm x 5.3 cm; 2 27/32 in x 2 3/32 in x 2 3/32 in