Geometric Model by Robert Cumming, a Student of A. Harry Wheeler, Pentagonal Dodecahedron?
date: label: date made
content: ca 1936
name: label: unspecified
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
label: maker
content: Cumming, R. H.
notes: label: Description
content: The faces of this cut and folded brown paper model may be considered as in six groups, each with two irregular pentagons on the side and four small isosceles triangles, two at each end. Hence there are a total of twelve pentagons and twnty-four triangles. Each pentagon is in the same plane as another pentagon and each triangle in the same plane as three other triangles. A mark on the model reads: Robert '36 (/) Cumming.
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.304723.044
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.044
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
label: Other Terms
content: Geometric Model; Polyhedron
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brown (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and glued (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 7 cm x 7 cm x 7 cm; 2 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in x 2 3/4 in