Model of the Union of Five Cubes and an Icosahedron by Richard P. Baker, Baker #531
date: label: date made
content: ca 1930s
name: label: maker
content: Baker, Richard P.
notes: label: Description
content: This metal model was constructed by Richard P. Baker. A mathematics professor at the University of Iowa, Baker believed that models were essential to instruction in many parts of mathematics and physics. Over one hundred of his models are in the NMAH collections.
label: Description
content: The model shows the union of five cubes and an icosahedron. The faces of icosahedron are painted white. The faces of the cubes are purple, pink, green, blue, and yellow. A paper tag on the model reads: No. 531 (/) Five cubes and icosahedron.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: R. P. Baker, <I>Mathematical Models</I>, Iowa City, Iowa, 1931, p. 21.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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 Frances E. Baker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.211257.108
label: accession number
content: 211257
label: catalog number
content: 211257.108
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: purple (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: yellow (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and soldered. (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 23.8 cm x 25.5 cm x 24.5 cm; 9 3/8 in x 10 1/32 in x 9 21/32 in