Geometric Model, Snub Dodecahedron
date: label: date made
content: 1990s
name: label: maker
content: Benson, Harold Walter
notes: label: Description
content: This convex uniform polyhedron has twelve faces that are regular pentagons and eighty that are equilateral triangles. Five triangles have one side that is the side of a given pentagon. In this version of the model, ten of the triangular faces are absent.
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 1990.0130.08.
label: Description
content: Reference:
label: Description
content: M. J. Wenninger, <I> Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971, p. 32.
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: 1999.0130.07
label: catalog number
content: 1999.0130.07
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: 21 cm x 21 cm x 21 cm; 8 9/32 in x 8 9/32 in x 8 9/32 in